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Solidarity is growing for a nurse and leading union activist who has been suspended from holding office in the Unison union.

A leading health worker in Unison has been suspended from holding office in the union, according to leaked internal emails.

An east London GP has warned that elderly people could die this winter because of flu vaccine shortages.

Hundreds of striking porters, cleaners and domestics in Bolton show the way to fight attacks on pay, NHS privatisation and outsourcing, argues Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Tory health secretary Matt Hancock offered warm words in the run-up to World Mental Health Day on Wednesday.

Pret A Manger killed a teenage girl.

A new inquiry is set to look at the decades of secrecy shrouding the use of contaminated blood in Britain. Thousands died as a result of being given blood that experts knew was infected with Hepatitis C. Sadie Robinson spoke to those fighting for justice

An inquiry into the infected blood scandal began on Monday. Thousands of people were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C after being given contaminated blood during the late 1970s and 1980s. More than 2,800 have died.

Health campaigners are celebrating after east London’s biggest trust hospitals trust partially backed down over checking patients’ immigration status

Women in Britain die earlier than women living in most other European countries, according to Public Health England (PHE).

Health campaigners plan to protest outside the annual general meeting of Barts Health NHS Trust on Wednesday of next week.

The Tories are trying to use the NHS as a back-door vehicle for deportations. Socialist Worker has seen two examples of how it works—and there are likely to be more.