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Three big local demonstrations to defend local hospitals will take place across London on 15 September. Protests are organised for Ealing, Brent and Greenwich. A fourth demonstration will hit the streets of Hammersmith on 22 September.

Activists have been building three big demos in defiance of planned A&E and hospital closures across London. This is in the run up to the national TUC demonstration on 20 October.

Health bosses are plotting to privatise a London hospital ward where elderly patients with mental health problems are cared for.

On 15 September marches against hospital cuts are set to hit four London boroughs.

NHS employers’ plans to slash the pay and conditions of hundreds of thousands of health workers in England are meeting resistance.

NHS bosses in England and Wales plan to slash pay for hundreds of thousands of health workers next year.

Threatened NHS cuts have sparked enormous anger and opposition. In some cases whole hospitals face the axe, alongside a swathe of A&Es and other departments.

Angry locals crammed into a consultation meeting in a small ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire last week, outraged at plans to sell off local health services.

Are the Tories scheming to use a cash crisis in the NHS as an excuse for a new wave of cuts and privatisation?

NHS trust bosses are demanding much lower national pay levels if they are to continue using the Agenda for Change framework for pay bargaining.

The British Medical Association (BMA) doctors’ union voted at its annual conference in Bournemouth to coordinate any further action over pensions with other unions.

Around 30 health campaigners protested outside a Virgin store on London’s Oxford Street on Saturday against the company’s plans to take over NHS services.