Brent council must convene an urgent meeting of the Community and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee to consider NHS proposals to cut the opening hours of the Urgent Treatment Centre at Central Middlesex Hospital by 3 hours a day, 21 hours a week. In 2014, Central Middlesex Hospital A&E Department closed following a decision from the then…

Plenty of doctors in orange and film crews were drawing car, van and bus horns to hoot solidarity. This trainee surgeon explained the action. His thrust was that doctors are striking to fix the NHS for patients because the Labour government has headed off on a wrong trajectory. The strike continues for five days. The…

From 7 – 9 pm on Wednesday, 21 January 2026 at Effra Social, 89 Effra Road, Brixton, SW2 1DF Leading the discussion, Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP and Rathi Guhadasan, SHA Chair. (Cash bar with hot food) NOT In 2025 we held stalls in different parts of Lambeth and Southwark, including St Thomas’ hospital under the theme…

Resident doctors in England, represented by the BMA, are set to strike again, following the government’s failure to address years of pay erosion and a deepening workforce crisis. Unsafe training bottlenecks, unrealistic job requirements, and collapsing real terms pay leave no alternative. It is a ridiculous situation: the public is desperate for more doctors, while…

One hundred thousand determined protestors of all ages and backgrounds marched again today in high spirits, determined to do so until Palestine is a sovereign state protected from Israeli aggression. Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP rewarded the marchers with a superb speech, as did others too, in particular Chris Nineham of Stop the War and Apsana Begum…

Despite the ceasefire, the Palestinian genocide continues. Please do attend the national demo if you can. For the SHA, @Mark Howell will be at Hyde Park Corner – suggest north side of Piccadilly at the corner with Park Lane 12.30. Look for the SHA flag. More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and…

The Wrong Prescription – Why Labour Must Rethink Its Approach To Asylum –Rathi Guhadasan, 18 November 2025 The Socialist Health Association condemns the asylum reforms announced this week by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, which represent a deeply concerning erosion of fundamental health and human rights protections for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. A…