Maudsley nurses on strike

Title

Maudsley nurses on strike

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

1 Feb 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:02:32

Description

Bruce Pavey interviews nurses at the Maudsley Hospital in Denmark Hill, Camberwell, where staff have become the first in London to go on strike. Members of the health union COHSE have started a twenty-four-hour stoppage and are mounting a picket at the hospital gates. The strike precedes a day of action in the capital when staff from at least thirty-five other hospitals are expected to walk out. The Maudsley nurses are angry about pay and cuts which they claim are putting patients in danger. The nurses are not identified but the first female speaker may be Jo Brand (who worked at the hospital in the 1980s, later becoming a well-known comedian).

Contributors

Bruce Pavey; Jo Brand?

Keywords

London; Trade unions; Labour disputes; Wages; Wage policy; Health services; Working conditions; UK; Great Britain; NHS; Nurses; Hospitals; COHSE; Safety; Maudsley Hospital; Camberwell

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