Our response to Government guidance on COVID and self-isolation Our Senior Legal Officer, Katie Wood, has compiled initial guidance on COVID and pregnant women’s rights at work in light of the Government guidance. It covers health and safety, working from home, sick pay, maternity leave and pay, dismissal and redundancy. Please read and share the blog.We … Read more
COVID-19 Pandemic The SHA wants to contribute to the tremendous national and international debate about controlling and mitigating the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. We will base these thoughts through the lens of a socialist society, which advocated politically in the 1930s to create the NHS in the UK and for other socialist policies, … Read more
While we welcome the £5bn emergency fund for the NHS and other public services and the open ended commitment made by the Chancellor that the government will provide whatever the NHS needs to meet the challenge of COVID-19; we are concerned to point out three big issues on sustaining an NHS, social care and protecting … Read more
Only 4 candidates sent personal statements for the SHA. Angela Rayner Statement Keir Starmer Statement Richard Burgon’s Short statement for the Socialist Health Association Rosena Allin-Khan Statement Here are the links to the candidates profiles on the Labour Party website. Rebecca Long-Bailey( personal leadership weblink) Rebecca Long-Baily ( Labour Party website profile) Lisa Nandy ( … Read more
“Like everyone else, we feel helplessness, anxiety, and fear.” by Dan Robitzski / 8 hours ago As they try to fight the COVID-19 outbreak, medical staff in China are suffering from the seemingly endless slog of work, new cases, and the coronavirus itself. Nurses in Wuhan, the city where the outbreak began, are fainting on … Read more
Ballot executed via Election Buddy and postal voting papers running from 24/01/2020 to 30/01/2020 for the Election Buddy ballot and 22/01/2020 to 04/02/2020 for the postal ballot papers ( to allow time for the papers to be delivered and returned. Postal ballots were sent 2nd class and included a SAE ( 2nd class ). 955 … Read more
SHA Scotland Meeting Further to the notice of the AGM to be held on 23 January, I am writing to notify members of an additional agenda item. · Scottish Labour Deputy Leader nomination – There are two validly nominated candidates after the first stage – Jackie Baillie and Matt Kerr. The next stage is … Read more
One on International Trade dispute settlements and the other on Social Care. These are not official SHA policy. Issues for the NHS during UK Trade deal Negotiations As socialists we have an almost irreconcilable set of principles
2 informative and extremely worrying videos from our Vice Chair, Dr Brian Fisher on the dire state of social care in England. Video 1: the current state of social care. This brief video, made for Reclaim Social Care, outlines what social care is and how it operates at the moment in England. https://photos.app.goo.gl/6kqUa7nbCjg2CEjt9 Video 2: … Read more
I have been requested to post the Scottish Labour Party Manifesto 2019. Scottish-Labour-Manifesto-2019
The National Health Service (NHS) paid for by our taxes provides a strong and secure safety net for all of us in the knowledge that if needed it will always be there for us. Before Aneurin Bevan establishes the NHS, people died because they could not afford to get treated. This video explains exactly why … Read more
Posted on behalf of Carol Ackroyd and Jan Savage A travelling photographic exhibition about NHS-owned private companies and what these mean for staff, patients and the NHS Text by Jan Savage Photographs by Marion Macalpine You are warmly invited to the London launch 25th November 2019, 6pm to 8pm with refreshments Unison Centre, 130 Euston … Read more