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A decade of Tory cuts has the NHS at breaking point—with patients stuck in ambulances and emergency wards, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

A record-breaking number of patients have been forced to wait for more than an hour before being admitted from ambulances into accident and emergency (A&E) departments.

The US is in the grip of a huge health epidemic so big that it is killing more than 130 people a day.

Thousands of nurses and other health workers in Northern Ireland are fighting for higher pay.

A series of strikes has forced NHS England bosses and multinationals onto the back foot over privatisation and outsourcing. Gabby Thorpe reports on the latest fight in west London

The number of hospital beds in England has fallen to the lowest level since records began—and a decade of Tory cuts is to blame.

A decade of Tory rule has slashed key services, savaged spending and driven more people into poverty. And if they aren’t kicked out, life for working class people is set to get worse, report Sarah Bates and Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Striking health workers staged a sit-in in the lobby of St Mary’s Hospital in west London

Tomáš Tengely-Evans looks at what a strike at a rehabilitation service says about the health service

Hundreds of health workers across the north west of England are holding firm against bosses’ plans to impose a new pay deal.

Health visitors in Lincolnshire are escalating their fight for equal pay and terms and conditions.

Health workers working for subcontractor Compass have announced a fresh wave of strikes in their pay fight.