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The Tories’ latest attack on health workers’ pay could provoke a massive backlash from the unions. 

Whichever party leader ends up in 10 Downing St, the NHS crisis will only get sharper.

Hospital porters at Dundee’s Ninewells and Victoria hospitals are now in the fourth week of an indefinite strike and the ninth week of industrial action.

NHS bosses are spending funds earmarked to deal with the next winter crisis in a desperate bid to keep accident and emergency (A&E) departments running.  

Disillusionment with Labour has seen the Scottish National Party capture the hopes of those radicalised by the independence vote. But a closer look at councils it runs should be a warning, as Raymie Kiernan found in Dundee

Porters in Dundee are the second set of workers to start an indefinite walkout, reports Raymie Kiernan

Health workers met in Liverpool this week as a new survey revealed the severe crisis gripping the NHS. 

Campaigners branded a public inquiry into the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS a “whitewash” last week. 

Short news stories from the past week including MPs on the impact of benefit sanctions, the privatisation racket on the railways continues, public inquiry report on tainted blood scandal and IPCC to release report on Mark Duggan death

Health workers are furious with bosses at the Barts Health NHS Trust in east London for running Whipps Cross Hospital into the ground.

The Labour Party is fighting to make the NHS its key issue for the general election. But this argument isn’t just raging between the Tories and Labour. 

Members of the largest health workers’ union, Unison, have voted by two thirds to accept a pay offer put to them after union leaders wrongly called off strikes last month. The turnout was 17 percent.