Hospital walkout set
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Health workers plan a one-day strike at 14 hospitals in Northern California owned by Sacramento-based Sutter Health. Up to 7,000 workers represented by the California Nurses Association and
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JOHANNESBURG -- Public sector workers yesterday staged the biggest strike in post-apartheid South Africa, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home, and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
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The impending Dec. 9 closure of San Jose Medical Center, announced earlier this week, will scatter physicians, employees and patients across the city as the hospital itself is razed to prepare the land for sale.
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Union leaders are meeting to plan what could be the first national strike in the NHS for 18 years.
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A group of health care leaders said on Tuesday they were banding together to make U.S. hospitals less dangerous places to get well.
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A doctors group says closing the unit will violate the Civil Rights Act and disenfranchise minorities. By Matt Krasnowski. A doctors group trying to block the closing of Martin Luther King Jr.
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First it was St. Paul&#39;s on Burrard St., which had to start closing wards last week due to the illness. And now it&#39;s struck the BC Children&#39;s Hospital.
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Workers at a Plymouth Hospital hand in a petition to Downing Street in protest at health service cutbacks.
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Tory leader Michael Howard is to unveil plans to introduce hospital matrons with the power to shut dirty wards.
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Â· Catholic leader demands NHS block on terminationsÂ· Communion challenge to pro-choice politicians
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The government is launching a proactive fight for hospitals to tackle MRSA and other infections.
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CHICAGO A medical accreditation group says too many patients are waking up during surgery and hospitals need to do more to prevent the incidents.
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Hospitals may be closed when patients are given choice, the health secretary says.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - New Brunswick hospital workers went on strike as promised early Monday in Premier Bernard Lord's Moncton riding.
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The health secretary is expected to announce a reversal of decisions to centralise hospital services.
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A pay dispute walkout by council workers in Falkirk causes the closure of many services.
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The Service Employees International Union will step up its Boston hospital organizing efforts today when members are expected to hand out leaflets in the Longwood Medical Area. SEIU has been working to organize employees in Boston's largely nonunion teaching hospitals for nearly two years. An organizing rally is set for Oct. 16. Union officials said they want hospital executives to ...