Hannah Basson

Hannah Basson has worked for the NHS for 20 years. She is the Secretary of the Unite union Gloucester District Health Branch, a coordinator with Stroud Against the Cuts and liaison for Keep Our NHS Public locally in Gloucestershire.

“Simon Jones was 24 when he died, his head crushed by the grab of a crane”

Poor working conditions kill a worker every 11 seconds. All of these deaths are preventable – if the political will is there. An edited version of a speech given on International Workers Day.

By Hannah Basson

/ 10 May 2018

Who’s afraid of the evidence about what works in the NHS?

Politicians have imposed evidence-free re-organisations on us health workers for years. Now they tell us that it's too late to change the mess they've got us into.

By Hannah Basson

/ 25 Mar 2016