Tag Archives: Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust

Trust to spend thousands on taxis to break ambulance strike

A south London NHS hospital trust is set to spend tens of thousands of pounds on Ubers and other private hire transport as they attempt to break a strike by union members, according to the GMB. Members of the union … Continue reading

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Owed £1,000 backpay, St Helier ambulance staff vote to strike

Staff who work in patient transfer ambulances for the Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over their employers’ failure to pay backpay. The GMB union, which represents the workers, has warned that … Continue reading

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Boris Johnson wrecks Sutton Tory hopes with hospital pass

Our Sutton reporter, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, sifts through the election offering on the other side of the borough boundary Thursday is election day on the other side of the borough’s boundaries, in Lambeth and Southwark, in Merton and Bromley, and in … Continue reading

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97% of south-west London covid patients are unvaccinated

Nearly every adult hospitalised with covid-19 in Croydon and south-west London over the past two months had not been fully vaccinated with two doses and a booster. Local operational figures for five major NHS hospitals in this part of London … Continue reading

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Government cuts £100m from budget for new Sutton hospital

Plans for a new hospital in Sutton have been hit after the government wrote to the local NHS Trust to advise that they would be cutting their contribution to the £511million build costs by around a quarter. The plans to … Continue reading

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Tories choose NHS’s birthday to sound death knell for St Helier

The Tory government chose the weekend of the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the NHS to sound the death knell for acute services at St Helier Hospital, and at Epsom Hospital in Surrey. A 25-year-long battle to maintain and … Continue reading

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Hospital porters use bedsheets for dead patients at St Helier

A public service trades union whose members work at St Helier Hospital in the covid-19 crisis say that some have been left “traumatised” after they were ordered to use bedsheets to transport deceased patients because body bags have “run out”. … Continue reading

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