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Health workers in Leeds and Bradford began a two-day strike today, Thursday, over cost-cutting and changes to their work patterns. The walkout follows a one-day strike last month.

An elated crowd rallied outside Lewisham Hospital in south east London this evening, Wednesday, to celebrate a court victory against the Tories.

News of the growing crisis in Britain’s A&E units finally found its way into parliament last week.

Health workers and campaigners in east London are angry that Barts Health Trust has launched an attack on Charlotte Monro.

The TUC has thrown its weight behind a demonstration to save the NHS at the Tory party conference on 29 September.

New figures reveal the year’s toll of deaths during and after police custody—painting a grisly picture of lives needlessly cut short, says Simon Basketter

The government likes to tell us that nurses don’t care about their patients. This is how it tries and explain away every problem in the NHS.

Tory dreams of dismantling the NHS and replacing it with private healthcare are taking a massive leap forwards.

Over 300 protesters with banners rallied against proposals to close inpatient beds in the Torrington Cottage Hospital last Saturday.

The Tories have sold off the state-owned NHS plasma supplier to a US private equity firm.

Laboratory biomedical scientists and support workers in the Unite union struck for on Tuesday of last week. Their employer, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, is imposing new working patterns. 

A Unison union rep and campaigner at Whipps Cross Hospital in east London has been threatened with disciplinary action by bosses at Barts Health Trust.