NHS funding
Motion no
33
This Conference is concerned at the continued under-funding of the NHS. This is putting lives at risk and is causing Patients’ anxiety and distress in particular when treatment is cancelled. The underfunding has resulted in the local NHS trusts having to...
Adopted
Cancer care
Motion no
32
This conference notes that 30,000 men in GB are living with terminal prostrate cancer but are not being offered enough care and support to combat the disease. This Conference instructs the NIC to join with other interested organisations to obtain from the...
Adopted
Health and Social Services – Time for Radical Change
Motion no
31
Our health and social care system is once again awash with a series of reviews. This continuous review syndrome has been used as a smokescreen to avoid the radical change necessary to produce a public health system to meet the needs of the people. Meanwhile...
Adopted
Maximising the public health workforce
Motion no
30
The Public Health Agency (PHA) recognises that reducing health inequalities is central to ensuring economic and social progress and that reducing entrenched health inequalities is not something that the PHA alone can achieve. In 2015 the Royal Society of...
Adopted
Implementation of Clare’s Law in Northern Ireland
Motion no
23
Domestic abuse affects 1 in 4 women. PSNI respond to a domestic incident every 23 minutes. Many perpetrators are serial perpetrators going from woman to woman. Presently women do not have the right to know if their partner has a history of domestic violence...
Adopted
Violence against Women and Girls
Motion no
21
Conference is appalled at the level of violence against women and girls in all parts of our society, including at the workplace. Conference notes the survey undertaken by the Women’s Committee in 2014 on the impact of domestic violence on the workplace which...
Adopted
FIFA's squalid secret
Sharan Burrow - General Secretary of the ITUC - says a new report on human rights could finally force FIFA to do the right thing for workers in Qatar. Thousands of workers building the 2022 FIFA World Cup facilities and infrastructure in Qatar are forced to live as modern day slaves. They are housed...
