While all of good faith on the left should wish the new party well, ANDREW MURRAY pinpoints some of the major challenges it will need to grapple with as it approaches its founding conference later this month
Why nurses are leaving the NHS
Poor employment conditions and widespread privatisation are just two of the many ills plaguing the NHS - only united action on all fronts can save it, writes HELEN O’CONNOR
'PATIENTS' CHAMPION': Health and Social Care Secretary Therese Coffey visits to The Marven Surgery in London on September 22 2022
TIM LEZARD dissects the motives behind the apoplectic right-wing attack on the BBC
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
NICK MATTHEWS recalls how the ideals of socialism and the holding of goods in common have an older provenance than you might think
Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA
ACCORDING to analysis from the Nuffield Trust 40,000 nurses have left the NHS in the past year, which is more than one in nine of the workforce.
The further 18 million in planned cuts to the NHS and public services will come out of the wages, terms and conditions of front-line staff and will further deepen the staffing crisis.
The accelerating crisis in nurse recruitment and retention has come to a head partly because of the pandemic but this is not the full story. This nurse exodus has been several decades in the making.
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