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Some 500 Yorkshire Ambulance Service workers in Unite union were set to strike again from noon to midnight on Friday of next week. 

Health minister Jeremy Hunt blamed the crisis in A&Es on GPs’ lack of out of hours (OOH) care last week.

Ambulance bosses in London are preparing a new attack on workers.

Protest in Italy, carnage in Iraq, shortages in Venezuela

A ballot of 3,000 health workers for strikes over pay and job cuts in Mid-Yorkshire NHS Foundation trust is due to end next week.

Angry protesters visited Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) meetings in south London last week.

Some 7,000 health workers, trade unionists and activists marched through London today, Saturday, to defend the NHS. Health workers came from Bristol, Brighton and Newcastle to join the protest.

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Overstretched nurses running out of beds and ambulance crews who can’t get patients into A&E. That’s the reality of the health service today. But, writes Annette Mackin, things are about to get a whole lot worse

NHS bosses in south west London announced plans to close two A&Es and cut maternity and children’s services, on Friday of last week.

The plan to roll the new outsourced NHS 111 helpline out nationally has been delayed by the launch of an investigation last week.

Thousands of doctors and pharmacists in the west African state of Ghana last week withdrew emergency cover as part of a pay dispute.