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Posts Tagged ‘nhs’

‘I’m running out of hope’: NHS worker driven to brink after 20 months of hell from anti-social neighbour

By Niall Holden | Monday 1 June 2026 at 12:34
photograph of Hackney Town Hall

Tenant left sleep-deprived and on verge of breakdown by ‘nocturnal’ neighbour

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‘We’re done with platitudes’: NHS staff at Homerton Hospital stage rally over pay

By Patrick Cardwell | Wednesday 1 April 2026 at 08:30
Protestors stand with placards and signs outside Homerton Hospital. "Pay for our skills, so we can pay our bills", one of the signs reads.

Union representatives warn the offer amounts to a ‘real-terms pay cut’ as frontline workers struggle with the rising cost of living

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NHS worker ‘at breaking point’ as noisy neighbour ‘stops her sleeping for 14 months’

By Lizzie McAllister | Tuesday 9 December 2025 at 16:11
Tower blocks

The social tenant says her noisy neighbour keeps her up throughout the night and says it has been 14 months since she got a peaceful night’s sleep

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‘There’s real concern’ – Hackney health campaigners hold first rally outside Homerton Hospital

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 27 November 2025 at 20:10
Homerton Hospital

Campaigners have expressed concerns over a potential contract between a Hackney hospital trust and a controversial US data company

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Homerton among top NHS trusts for cancer wait times but falls short of key target

By Gabriel Stewart | Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 16:30
Homerton Hospital

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was fifth of 121 NHS trusts in England for cancer wait times.

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‘A litany of concerns’: Hackney councillors discuss Palantir contract with Homerton

By Claudia Lee | Monday 27 October 2025 at 15:14
Cllr Ben Hayhurst, Chair of the Health in Hackney scrutiny commission and Duncan McCann of the Good Law Project

‘We are in touch with workers in many trusts across all levels who want to resist the rollout’

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‘Speechless’: Council tells NHS staff to stop writing letters in support of SEND families

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 24 October 2025 at 12:21
Erik's mother Niki said the council's medical teams had downplayed his special needs

Hackney parents whose children have special educational needs and disabilities say they are shocked by the request seen in leaked emails

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NHS to close sexual health clinic serving City and Hackney

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 1 August 2025 at 14:32

Homerton Hospital to shut clinic in October due to falling patient numbers post-pandemic and rent costs – despite Hackney remaining STI hotspot

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Homerton health workers celebrate ‘long overdue’ pay increase

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 31 July 2025 at 13:51
Homerton Hospital

Clinical support workers secure wage hike and back pay following lengthy union-backed campaign

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‘Gaslighting’: Disabled man trapped in flat for months slams landlord over rehousing delays

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 23 May 2025 at 18:24

Malcolm Cripps was ‘traumatised’ after being unable to leave his building last year but is still in the same property

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AI to help Homerton Hospital cut cancer scan waits from ‘three weeks to three days’

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 7 March 2025 at 15:58
Homerton Hospital

New software now available at all major acute hospitals across north-east London

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Health campaigners urge councillors to speak out about ‘savage’ NHS cuts

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 17 February 2025 at 10:51

Keep Our NHS Public says Labour is continuing ‘disastrous’ Tory plans

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Bleeding Fabulous, Mark Ward, book review: ‘A heart-warming but cautionary tale’

By Sarah Birch | Monday 18 November 2024 at 13:12

This memoir of a haemophiliac caught up in the NHS’s infected blood scandal is ‘remarkable’

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‘Catastrophic’: Campaigners blast council over cuts to falls prevention service

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 14 November 2024 at 15:05

Council tells residents that an NHS-funded service will continue for older people at higher risk

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Drug consumption rooms key to tackling substance misuse in Hackney, say Greens

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 30 September 2024 at 20:37

Cllrs Alastair Binnie-Lubbock and Zoë Garbett say drug use should no longer be categorised as anti-social behaviour

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Homerton Hospital caterers to protest again over ‘second-class’ treatment in Covid payment row

By Josef Steen | Tuesday 27 August 2024 at 19:00

Staff employed by Denmark-based company ISS have not received the bonus in recognition of their efforts during the pandemic

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‘Absolute privilege’: East London health boss Lorraine Sunduza awarded OBE

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 17 June 2024 at 10:18

Sunduza, chief executive of the East London NHS Foundation Trust, recognised for her work in mental and community health

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Three Hackney councillors dramatically quit Labour to form independent group

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 May 2024 at 11:11
L-R: Cllrs Penny Wrout, Claudia Turbet-Delof and Fliss Premru.

Cllrs Claudia Turbet-Delof, Penny Wrout and Fliss Premru say they can ‘no longer in good conscience continue campaigning for Labour’

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Fifteen per cent of mental health patients waited more than 12 hours in A&E in January

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 25 April 2024 at 18:05

The delays were partly down to a jump in the number of people who remain in hospital despite being ready for discharge

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Thirty-two patients lost embryos in Homerton fertility centre incidents

By Maya Sall, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 25 April 2024 at 13:01
Homerton Hospital

The centre had its licence suspended in March after ‘three separate incidents’ in the preceding year

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