Labour Councillor, Nicky Williams, has warned that following the decision to withdraw bus services in the evenings and weekends hospital staff may have to give up work because they are unable to get home. Nicky said: "This problem was brought to my attention by a worker at the hospital who attended my surgery. She works shifts and serves the evening meal to patients, she told me that she is one of...

Tens of thousands of NHS workers would be sacked, hospital units closed and patients denied treatments under secret plans for £20?billion of health cuts.

HILLINGDON HOSPITAL CLEANERS - A PROUD HISTORY One Day strike organised by COHSE and NUPE Domestics at Hillingdon Hospital 23rd May 1985. (100%) (pic below) The strike was in protest at the hospital's privatisation programme and support with Barking hospital strikers. Management asked them...

Some 40,000 workers in Birmingham are heading into battle with the council over the single status pay deal. Some of the council’s lowest paid workers are having their wages slashed. In one case a worker was called into a meeting to be told of their pay cut and had to be taken to hospital after collapsing in shock.

Hospital Doctor is much missed. It was the best of the many medical magazines that one found in the mess, in the coffee room, the dining room and the library. Now, some of the Hospital Doctor staff have risen, phoenix like, from the ashes to present "Hospital Dr" on the internet. HospitalDr Well worth a look.

The 100th hospital scheme to be built under the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the NHS - St Helens Hospital in Merseyside - has admitted its first patients. So far 131 hospitals have been built or are under construction as part of the scheme at a cost of £12 billion. Secretary of

Serious concerns have been raised over Birmingham children's hospital NHS foundation trust (BCH), just days after a damning report over Stafford hospital.

The spin of the government's "Agenda for Change" scheme is that it provides equal pay for doing the same job across the NHS. The reality was that management in many hospitals saw it as an opportunity to downgrade the role of administration staff, a similar situation to the one created by the much vaunted Single Status agreement for Local Government workers.

from the Buckingham Advertiser HOSPITAL workers across Buckinghamshire have voted to ballot on strike action after a two-year dispute about sick pay. More than 200 workers who are contracted to private firm Medirest for the NHS are expected to decided in the next couple of weeks whether to strike, amid widespread unhappiness about their terms of employment. Wycombe

Some of the most senior vermin that make up Hamas are believed to be hiding in the basements of the Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City, which was refurbished during Israel's occupation of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli civil administration in the territories constructed the hospital complex's Building Number 2, which has a large cement basement that housed the hospital's laundry and v...