History

Blast from the Past – ‘Overseas Nurses’ in the 1970s

We re-publish below an article that was featured in Race Today, a political magazine written by black radicals and revolutionaries between 1973 and 1988

Meetings

Report from the Vital Signs meeting, 12th of November 2024

A group of colleagues who work at the two main hospitals in Bristol met at our regular meeting

Debate

The mysterious world of NHS bands – or how we re-grade health care assistants to a Band 8

NHS Bands – not only paying us peanuts, but also different amounts of peanuts

International

Current and past hospital movements in Germany – Conversation with a friend and fellow worker

We visited a comrade who has been working and organising as a nurse since the late 1980s

Worker and Patient

Datix? Greatix? Forget–about-ix?

We need a culture of speaking up, but for that we need a collective self-confidence

History

Blast from the past – Nurses in 1985

We document this ancient article on the situation of nurses in the mid-1980s by Carl Pinel

Debate

Industry and pharmaceutics, by Marco Boschetti

We translated the introduction to an interesting book on the pharmaceutical industry

Issues

Vital Signs no.2

If you are interested in helping with the distribution of the hardcopy, give us a shout: vitalsignsmag@proton

Debate

What do we mean by ‘a new society’?

The subtitle of this magazine is ‘The struggle for a new society’