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Published in: Home: OpinionI’m a newly qualified nurse. Here’s why I rejected the insulting 5% pay offerOPINION: After tax, National Insurance, pension payments and student loan repayments, I’d have got £15 extra a week
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Published in: Home: NewsNHS paid private firms £500m to ‘ease backlog’. Fewer patients got seenThe health service saw 6.6% fewer people in 2022 than 2019, despite lucrative contracts to fix wait lists
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionDon’t be fooled by childcare pledges, Hunt’s budget offers the bare minimumOPINION: The chancellor failed to tackle the cost of living crisis, but threw money at big business and top earners
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Published in: Home: OpinionPaying for GP appointments won’t save the NHS. Just look at IrelandOPINION: The two-tier system praised by the British right is a crumbling deathtrap with long waits and bed shortages
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Published in: Home: OpinionI’m voting to strike because I’m an NHS patient as well as a junior doctorA medic who works in the NHS and relies on it for her own care explains why strikes are the only way to save the service
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Published in: Home: NewsComparing UK anti-strike law to Europe is ‘b*llocks’, say continental unionsEuropean trade unionists say UK strike laws are already more restrictive than its neighbours
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Published in: Home: FeatureAre unions failing to support Black NHS workers?As strikes continue nationwide, openDemocracy asks whether Black people are properly represented in the labour movement
