by Christopher Thomas. Pluto Press This book provides a helpful and eminently readable overview of ‘health’ and how a government with a ‘health justice agenda’ might effect meaningful change. ‘The left’ (a troublingly amorphous concept that casts the Royal Colleges in the role of key institutions of the ‘health labour movement’) is castigated for being […]
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NHS Under Siege
by John Lister and Jacky Davis (eds.). The Merlin Press Limited, Dagenham, 2022 http://www.merlinpress.co.uk Like Woody Guthrie’s guitar (a ‘machine for killing fascists’), ‘NHS Under Siege’ is intended not just to educate, but as a weapon to inform and strengthen the fight for the NHS and social justice. Edited by two veteran campaigners who also […]
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Music and Poetry
We are collating songs and poetry on this page, which support the NHS, trade unionism and workers’ struggles, and our general aims of a socialist future. Please email any suggestions, with some background if you can, to doctorsinunite59@gmail.com and we’ll consider adding them to this page. 1. Nye: song for the NHS Welsh singer / […]
Your editorial summarises the terrible situation in general practice: declining numbers and declining passion for the role, with poorer outcomes for all (“A dearth of GPs is threatening the country’s health”). We in Doctors in Unite, part of Unite, have recently published our charter to revitalise general practice. This requires a party in government committed […]
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ALCOHOL HEALTH ALLIANCE
Doctors in Unite is affiliated to the Alcohol Health Alliance. The Alcohol Health Alliance UK (AHA) is an alliance of more than 60 non-governmental organisations which work together to promote evidence-based policies to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. Members of the AHA include medical royal colleges, charities, unions, treatment providers and other organisations that […]
Doctors in Unite attended the massive June 18 demonstration against the cost of living crisis, low wages, fire and rehire, and other anti-worker practices like outsourcing.
A Charter For General Practice INTRODUCTION This paper calls upon those who plan the National Health Service to recognise that unless we revitalise primary care and make it the centrepiece of the NHS, with General Practice as a fundamental part, we will fail to get the maximum benefit from our investment in the NHS. We call […]
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This statement was read out at the Doctors in Unite IWMD event on 28 April 2022 Let’s be clear what today is really about. Working people continue to die simply as a result of doing their jobs. Many workers paid the price for the pandemic with their lives and with their health. Key workers sent […]
The theme for this year’s International Workers Memorial Day is ‘occupational health and safety is a human right’ – an issue highlighted by the covid pandemic when it was clear that many employers (and indeed the Health and Safety Executive itself) failed in their duty to protect workers. Covid 19 has caused the deaths of […]
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