Negligence payouts: the cost of NHS cuts

There has been a 30 per cent increase in claims against our health service in the past decade, costing our health service £2.4bn in 2019 alone, writes STEVEN WALKER

Austerity cuts have fuelled dramatic rise in prison suicides, says union

AUSTERITY cuts to the prison service have contributed to an alarming long-term rise in prisoner suicides, prison officers’ union POA said today.

Benefits cut for nearly 18,000 families in Scotland because they have more than two children

Scottish Greens called on Holyrood to protect families from two-child limit and calls on Westminster to ‘end these cruel policies now’

Scottish ministers urged to double payments for parents in need

SCOTTISH government ministers are being urged to keep a pledge to double the payment made to needy parents as soon as possible.

Government urged to reverse ‘shameful’ plans to phase out £20 universal credit ‘uplift’

Now is the time for working people and the youth to seize the initiative

The strength of our movement is to be found in all of the thousands of struggles, big and small, which are taking place up and down this country, says YCL leader JOHNNIE HUNTER

It’s 2021 and people can’t get a dentist

JUST over a year ago the small town of Leiston on the Suffolk coast had two dental practices that took on both NHS and private patients. 

Whatever you’re angry about, campaigning for, demanding action on – join the People’s Assembly on the streets today

We must send a strong message that as we emerge from Covid, there must be no going back to business as usual, says STEVE TURNER of Unite

Thousands across Britain to say Tories are not fit to govern in People’s Assembly protest

THOUSANDS of people from all across Britain will gather in London tomorrow in a national demonstration calling for the Tories to be booted out of g

Osborne's appointment as British Museum chairman met with outrage

As chancellor, he ‘was the architect of devastating cuts to the arts and to culture,’ Labour's Angela Rayner says. ‘He is in no way an appropriate choice’