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30,000 deaths and now more NHS cuts
by Daphne Liddle
RESEARCHERS at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of Oxford, and Blackburn with Darwen borough council last week claimed, in two articles published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, that an unprecedented increase in “excess deaths” in England and Wales could be linked to underfunding in the NHS and the social care system.
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30,000 deaths and now more NHS cuts
ASLEF drivers reject their leaders’ sell-out deal
MEMBERS of the train drivers’ union ASLEF last week rejected a sell-out deal negotiated with Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) — the owners of Southern Rail — and supported by the TUC that would have conceded everything the management was aiming to achieve on the issue of operating trains with no guards or on-board supervisors (OBSs).
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ASLEF drivers reject their leaders’ sell-out deal