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Mounting public opposition forces health minister to intervene to halt hospital cut

July 19, 2025 Editor

Days after the Western Trust board voted to commence a consultation on the permanent removal of emergency general surgery from South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen hundreds gathered at a quickly convened Save Our Acute […]

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The experience of one NHS social worker

July 22, 2024 Joanne Elder NHS social worker. Personal capacity.

As an NHS social worker of 12 years, and voluntary sector before that, and latterly an active trade unionist, the altruistic nature of a national health service free at the point of use is something I will […]

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Capitalism Does Not Care about the Elderly: Nursing Home Scandal

March 13, 2023 First published in the Spring 2023 edition of ‘Militant Left’ Fiona O'Loughlin

Revelations earlier this year about a cover up by the state in the nursing home sector shocked many and exposed yet again the callousness of the Irish capitalist state. Thousands of elderly or vulnerable residents […]

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Health Strikes in the North: Defending Workers’ Pay and the NHS

February 15, 2023 Tanya Killen, General Council NIPSA and Branch Secretary (Both personal capacity)

With widespread discontent and anger over pay, safe staffing and mileage reimbursement, health service unions in Northern Ireland – NIPSA and UNISON -commenced industrial action on 5 December 2022. Action initially commenced with ongoing work […]

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For a Public Health System: No to Health Profiteering

January 26, 2022 Billy Flynn

Covid-19 has done much to expose the chronic problems within the Irish health service. One such problem is the necrotic influence of private healthcare. In its infancy, this was the method by which religious institutes […]

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