Health workers and students marched outside the Royal London Hospital on Wednesday in protest over cuts..

THE STARMER Government is planning to reduce public expenditure by cutting welfare benefits and restricting the number of people who can apply or them. This has come as a surprise to quite a number of Labour MPs, and some members, ...

Maruf Ahmed WHO WANTS to be frozen all year? The Tower Hamlets Be Well centres do! The Council has frozen the fees at all its Be Well Centres for the next financial year (2025-26). Most boroughs have sports and/or leisure ...

IT IS several years since the NHS decided to modernise the Royal London Hospital – triggering a wholesale redevelopment of the surrounding part of Whitechapel. But will the development bring improvements to the area? The opportunity to improve Whitechapel wasn’t ...

WORKERS in the Rapid Response Team at Guy’s & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust are going on strike from Monday, 24th February over concerns about how the staff are treated. Unite the Union claim that management’s responses do not meet ...

ALL NHS worker were “heroes” during the Covid pandemic – and we stood on our doorsteps and clapped to prove it. Among the heroic teams were the staff who dealt with infection control. These workers dive in to parts of ...

JUST WHEN you think you’ve got a new hospital well on track, along comes a new Government which shunts it into the sidings. It doesn’t matter how much consultation you’ve had or why you need it: the Minister wants to ...

By Carol Saunders for Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public TOWER HAMLETS Keep Our NHS, together with GPs from the borough’s Local Medical Committee, jointly hosted a really successful public meeting at the Bernie Cameron Community Centre in Bow on ...

THESE QMW students look happy enough, tinkering about with bits of kit and computers – but they are taking part in projects that could help locals in Tower Hamlets as well as giving a lifeline to populations around the world. ...

AFTER YEARS OF campaigning, it looks like politicians are finally acknowledging the need for more housing in the UK – particularly social housing. And after similar years of grassroots campaigning, politicians are also recognising how important – and underfunded – ...