Doctors in UniteDr John Puntis tells it like it is in this article in Tribune Magazine. The NHS is on its knees, and the government’s remedy is more austerity. Make no mistake this is deliberate, cold eyed destruction of our most cherished national institution, and at the same time social murder of the working class. The article […]
If you’re a health worker, please challenge these charges wherever you come across them. If you’d like to join the campaign to support the right of everyone to NHS care, contact Patients not Passports or the Migrant Support Group at Medact. The following motion was passed unanimously at a recent DiU meeting. Doctors in UNITE […]
Dr Coral Jones proposed and Dr Louise Irvine seconded a motion defending the NHS and calling for an end to all privatisation within the NHS, at the recent Labour Party conference. The resolution was carried unanimously. Their speeches can be seen here, from 47 minutes. The motion Conference notes: 12 years of Conservative underfunding, neglect […]
This year is the 30th anniversary of the premature death of Dr David Widgery, a committed doctor, socialist and anti-racist campaigner. On 28 September 2022, a memorial meeting was held at St Ann’s Church in London’d East End. A video recording of the meeting is available here. Speakers include Dr Kambiz Boomla and Dr Anna […]
A comprehensive guide to holding safer conferences and meetings, for trade unions and other organisations. We are delighted to have worked with the Hazards Campaign to develop this guide, which provides easy to follow and implement advice on reducing risks of infection at in-person meetings. Download link just below document
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 […]
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 […]
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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