Doctors in Unite passed the following motion on 22 January 2023, to be submitted to the Unite Policy Conference in July 2023. This conference recognises that: Unite policies include a number of controversial and unproven technologies, often promoted by vested interests, for example: This conference acknowledges that NO NEW fossil fuels should be extracted if […]
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I Always Thought I’d Live
Kevin Higgins was a socialist and satirical poet. He was born in England to Irish parents and moved to live in Galway in the west of Ireland in the 1990s. He was the poet in residence at the Merlin Park Hospital in the city. He died of leukaemia in 2022. This was his last poem, […]
The founding principles of the NHS have long been under attack, but now it seems that some politicians from both Conservative and Labour parties are predicting its impending collapse unless radically reformed. The latter, of course, involves diverting even more money to health care and insurance companies, and propping up a small, inefficient and often […]
Doctors in Unite fully support our colleagues in the RCN in their strike action. No one withdraws their labour lightly but there comes a point when to carry on is more detrimental than to stop. Nurses work extremely hard and with dedication at the best of times, never more so than during the pandemic, yet […]
On November 6th Doctors in Unite voted unanimously to affiliate with Covid Families for Justice. We continue to support their campaign for a robust public inquiry into the tens of thousands of lives lost during the pandemic. You can find out more about the campaign, and the upcoming public inquiry, here.
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The NHS can’t take austerity 2.0
Dr 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 […]
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Resist NHS migrant charges.
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 […]
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Dr David Widgery
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 […]
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