Tag Archives: St George’s Hospital

Backpay victory for healthcare assistants at St Helier Hospital

Healthcare assistants working at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton and two other hospitals in the area have secured a pay victory and have voted to accept an offer from their employers, with some to receive as much as £7,000 compensation … Continue reading

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NHS staff at St Helier to start strike action over unpaid back-pay

Healthcare assistants whose jobs were wrongly graded are at ‘breaking point’, as managers at Epsom Hospital, St George’s in Tooting and St Helier refuse to make good their errors NHS staff will be on picket lines outside three major hospitals … Continue reading

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St Helier staff ready to walk out over years of unpaid back pay

Workers at St George’s in Tooting and Epsom Hospital and St Helier in Carshalton voted 100% and 99% in favour of strike action Around 600 healthcare assistants working at three hospitals in south-west London and Surrey are on the brink … Continue reading

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99% of healthcare assistants backing strike action at St Helier

Workers’ union begins strike ballot after two NHS hospital trusts offer ‘the worst back-pay deal’ in London More than 600 healthcare assistants at St Helier Hospital and across the group at St George’s in Tooting and Epsom Hospital are to … Continue reading

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Shirley teen to release Christmas single to support charities

A teenaged actor and musician from Shirley has revived a family song to raise funds to support young people and seriously ill children this festive season. At the end of this month, 18-year-old Ethan Thorne is releasing two versions of … Continue reading

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7 councils ask Streeting to call-in children’s cancer decision

Croydon has joined with six other local authorities from across south London and Surrey to issue a plea to the new Labour government’s health secretary to call-in plans to move children’s cancer care from The Royal Marsden Hospital at Belmont … Continue reading

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BME Forum online Bowel Cancer Awareness Talk, Oct 25

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Union wins settlement for hospital cleaners and porters

The GMB trades union, which is in dispute with the employers of porters and cleaners at Croydon’s Mayday Hospital over covid sick pay, has suspended a protest on similar issues at nearby St George’s Hospital in Tooting after management there … Continue reading

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Covid emergency ‘surge hub’ is to be built in south London

England is hurtling towards a New Year surge of covid positive cases, thanks in large measure to the do-nothing government of Boris Johnson refusing to implement additional precautions over the Christmas period, coupled with its failure to supply enough testing … Continue reading

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Amazon delivers £2,000 donation to NHS hospital charity

The Amazon delivery station team in Croydon has donated £2,000 to a charity that provides support to patients, staff and visitors at St George’s Hospital. The charity, based at the major NHS hospital in Tooting, received the donation as part … Continue reading

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