Hospital driven deep into debt
9 January 2017
The Princess Royal University Hospital in Bromley, south London has accumulated the largest hospital debt in the capital – a staggering £62.3 million.
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New Year protest against fare rises
3 January 2017
Rail unions and passenger groups are kicking off the new year with two days of protests against high fares.
Contractor seeks cleaning redundancies at hospital hit by norovirus
31 December 2016
A week after private provider ISS secured acontract at a Kent hospital, it proposed making 30 cleaners redundant – despite a history of norovirus outbreaks at the hospital.
Why the movement of labour is not "free"
People smuggling, trafficking, organised gangs – what’s free about that?
A spanner in the works of the EU war machine
One of the worst lies told in the referendum was that the EU is a force for peace. The opposite is true, and the vote to leave holds out the prospect of a reduction of the risk of war…
Another Brexit opportunity - the railways
Under the EU our railways have been fragmented, privatised and sold off to foreign – mainly state-owned – companies. With independence looming, what now needs to be done?
Worked to the bone
The failure to fight for wages has worked its way through to an ever-lengthening working day…
Points of profit
The points at which money can be made in the trafficking process...
The road to a new industrial revolution
Investment, skills, education, education for life, jobs for life, wealth creation for the people – a new industrial revolution but this time ours.
Remake industry!
Free of the EU, Britain must seize the chance of a lifetime to create a new industrial revolution…
Agriculture and fisheries can look to the future
For forty years we have documented the disastrous effects of EEC, later EU, membership on British agriculture and fisheries. Now, with an end to EU membership in sight, Britain can at last begin to put things right…
Use Brexit to improve patient safety, say surgeons
30 December 2016
The Royal College of Surgeons has called on the government to use Brexit to strengthen language testing for overseas doctors and increase the time allocated to medical training.