Corbynism unites West Wales
By Maria Carroll Last week, guest author Maria Carroll wrote movingly about her own experiences as the daughter and mother of soldiers and the state’s abandonment of veterans to […]
Tag Archives: A&E
WWL NHS Trust trolls workers striking to stay in the NHS
NHS staff in the north-west are striking against a decision by Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust to transfer their employment out of the NHS to a new limited company […]
Excl: Javid claims ‘Punish Muslim’ letter but doesn’t mention 2 staff hospitalised
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid caused controversy last week by tweeting an image of a vile ‘Punish a Muslim’ letter that he claimed to have received by post, under a one-word […]
Hammond: “Judge me by my record”? You sure, Phil? #SpringStatement
Chancellor Philip Hammond challenged the UK public, during his ‘Spring Statement’, to Judge me by my record. Mr Hammond should be careful what he wishes for. When Labour entered government […]
NHS mental health “early intervention” running on HALF staffing – costing lives and money
There is good evidence that Early Intervention (EI) services in mental health care save lives and money. EI services contribute towards reducing suicide rates from 15% to 1% when compared […]
Cancelled NHS ops highest for 24yrs – BEFORE January’s blanket cancellation
The latest NHS England performance statistics show that the number of ‘elective’, ie. non-emergency, operations cancelled in our health service in the third quarter (Oct-Dec) of the year reached the highest […]
NHS A&E performance WORST on record – in spite of FALL in demand
Small wonder that Jeremy Hunt has abandoned reporting of the waiting-time performance of our NHS Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments until at least April next year. The latest – and […]
Govt abandons A&E waiting-time target. MSM near-silent
The Health Service Journal has reported that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has scrapped the measurement of NHS Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments until April 2019 – amid the biggest NHS winter crisis in years. […]
Figures show: no other govt has invested less additional cash in NHS than this
The government’s fall-back when challenged over its failure on the NHS, as worse winter crisis follows winter crisis, is to fall back on its claim that it has ‘put more […]
May misleads Commons on Welsh NHS – incompetence or dishonesty?
Theresa May, cornered during today’s PMQs by Jeremy Corbyn over the Tories’ NHS catastrophe, chose her usual, invalid escape route of pointing fingers at the NHS in Wales, where Labour […]