Tag Archives: nurses

By Mark Evans, Swansea and West Wales Socialist Party My family’s recent experience of the NHS was an example of what most people know – the NHS in Wales is on the critical list. My wife’s mother suffered a fall and, after waiting for five-and-a-half hours for an ambulance, then spent over five days on a trolley in A&E with ...

By Beth Webster RCN Wales member The nurses’ strikes continue in Wales. As many as 40 were on our picket line at University Hospital Wales, in Cardiff. Public support has been excellent from passing traffic. Staff feel the turnout on the picket line has been affected by the acceptance of deals by other unions and the Royal College of Nursing ...

By Beth Webster, UHW nurse, Cardiff West Socialist Party Boris Johnson has finally admitted that we are heading into a second Covid wave. NHS workers deserve a pay rise and need more resources to cope. At least 13 million people are now back under local lockdown, with an R rate as high as 1.4 in some areas. NHS and social ...

Welsh government must cancel all fines and PFI deal Seventy-five health workers at University Hospital of Wales hospital in Cardiff are facing fines totalling £65,000 after the Cardiff Civil Justice Centre ruled in favour of parking corporation Indigo collecting the fines. Indigo claims there are £12.8 million in unpaid fines due from April 2016. Workers have incurred the fines parking ...