GMB trade union members at Great Western Hospital (GWH) working for Carillion have voted overwhelmingly in a consultative ballot for strike action. There was a 100% yes vote, on a 89% ballot. GMB will now move to a formal strike ballot in the New Year. The 400 bed Great Western NHS Hospital was one of the

BARKING HOSPITAL STRIKE 1984 Cothall's (a subsidiary of Pritchards) held the contract for hospital cleaning at Barking Hospital in East London for a number of years prior to 1984. This company had close links to the Conservative Party and in particular arch privateer Michael Forsyth MP (Stirling)...

Medical secretaries at York Hospital have moved a step closer to strike action in a long-running pay dispute. The GMB union was meeting with hospital managers on Tuesday after 98% of the 36 staff who responded to a strike ballot voted in favour of industrial action.

This is the important question suggested by this piece in the Guardian. By this rather confused young lady. Now, Ellie worked as a hospital cleaner you see. She now works as a temp in London. Fine by me, I see nothing wrong with that. But Ellie herself ought to. For as she says: Hospital cleaning

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

Just one in 100 patients are asked how they were treated in hospital in some parts of the country according to official statistics revealed in the annual patient survey by the Healthcare Commission which regulates standards in the health service.

Hammersmith Hospital In 1983 the Conservative Party keen to destroy public services decided to force through privatisation of hospital cleaning. This led to cuts of 50% in cleaning staff, poor pay and more importantly a massive increase in infection rates. One of the first contracts to be awarded...

Ward sisters are to be given more powers to improve hospital cleanliness in Wales.

What can you tell about a President’s four year term from the first 100 days? Sod all really. The first 100 days of the Bush presidency told us nothing about how he would go on to be one of the most unpopular presidents in modern history or that war and terror would go on to be the defining issues of his term; hell, by the first 100 days his approval ratings suggested he was on course to be one

The GMB trade union which represents 150 staff who work as housekeepers and porters for Carillion at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital warns that a strike seems increasingly likely at the GWH. The official strike ballot result was announced today with 97.3% of members voting for strike action on a turnout of 84 per cent. GMB