Health & Education workers strike across the north
Thousands of health and education workers took strike actionyesterday across the North in protest against Budget cuts in the public service. The 24 hour strike action, the first in over 30 years...
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A Christmas Tale - Irish Health System experience
Over Christmas I found myself at home babysitting my niece while my"better half B" had to go to work. Around 3.00 o'clock B rang me in pain that was so intense I could not make out what she was trying...
View ArticleChildren wait two years for tonsils operation
PEOPLE HAVE got so used to the health cuts over the last ten years that they just accept them as their lot. The situation on hospital waiting lists for public patients is now so farcical that people...
View ArticleStormont healthcare cuts to blame for tragic death of hospital patient
The tragic death of a 77 year old man who died alone and unnoticed waiting for treatment on a hospital trolley for 22 hours in Belfast’s main A&E ward in the Royal Hospital, is the result of savage...
View ArticleHealthcare workers protest over attacks on pay and working conditions
Last Wednesday workers representing all the main trade unions organised token lunchtime protests outside all the main hospitals in Northern Ireland including the RVH and Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry....
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In a State of Emergencies - Healthcare Workers Under Pressure
As the number of patients reached a record high in recent days, healthcare workers in Emergency Departments (ED) in the country strive to maintain some acceptable standard of care delivery for...
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In defiance of government spin nurses cry Enough is enough
The West’s awake, so too the other provinces, as defiant nurses and midwives take to the picket lines. Buoyed by massive public support, members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO)...
View ArticleHuge march for the nurses but serious concerns over proposed deal
In the aftermath of the huge march in support of the nurses on Saturday [video] the government suddenly found a pay deal it could put on the table, leading to the INMO suspending the strike until that...
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A System in Need of a Cure
The healthcare system, upon which people in Ireland depend, is an apartheid system. Simply put, some lives are worth more than others. Rare attempts at reform have been stymied by historic, chronic...
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Towards a Cure - WSM Health Pamphlet
Radical health reform, in terms of creating equality and accessibility, and stopping the agenda of privatisation and for-profit medicine, is one of the great challenges facing Irish society. In this...
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