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Some 3,000 health workers in Yorkshire are set to vote on strikes this week against attacks on their jobs and pay.

The Tories came under fire over the Staffordshire NHS scandal at the annual conference of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) this week.

The Unison union healthcare conference began on Monday this week. Unison activists looked for strategy and coordination from their officials. 

NHS bosses have spent millions of pounds hiring ambulances from private companies as NHS ambulance jobs are slashed. 

Biomedical scientists at the Royal Preston and Chorley hospitals have voted by 96 percent to strike against pay cuts of up to £6,000 a year. 

The Unite union’s Health National Industrial Sector Committee has voted overwhelmingly for action on 26 June.

Health workers and activists are coming to London on 18 May to join the Defend the NHS march called by London Save NHS and Keep Our NHS Public campaigns. 

Private health care provider Care Plus is trying to tear up the NHS Agenda for Change pay and conditions in the services it runs in north east Lincolnshire. 

The Unison union has called on the government to step in to save Mid Staffs NHS Trust from going into administration.

Some 3,000 health workers at Mid Yorkshire NHS foundation trust are set to be balloted.

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Thousands endured the rain to join a lively protest to defend the Whittington Hospital. Delegations of trade unionists, health workers and activists marched alongside local people to oppose plans to slash over 500 jobs, over 100 beds and sell off £17 million worth of buildings.