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After months of public fury over the plot to sell the NHS, trade unions are starting to mobilise against it. The Unite union is calling for health workers to come to parliament to lobby their MPs on Wednesday of next week.

Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley was accosted outside Downing Street on Monday of this week.

Anger at the NHS privatisation bill could be fatal for David Cameron’s government—according to Tory cabinet ministers.

Management consultancy firm McKinsey and Company have spent thousands of pounds on lavish events for top NHS regulators.

Prince Philip hospital Hundreds of people marched through Llanelli, South Wales, on Saturday to protest at threats to downgrade the town’s Prince Philip hospital.

A doctors’ surgery in central London is set to close in April—after being sold twice in four years.

The Tories’ deputy party chairman Michael Fallon MP has pocketed more than £27,000 in fees from private healthcare firm Attendo, he has admitted.

The new private bosses of Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridgeshire will need to make cuts of £10 million in order to turn a profit, a report says.

Doctors, nurses, health workers and patients are lining up to defend the NHS from Tory minister Andrew Lansley’s privatisation plot. So just whose support are Lansley and his pals counting on?

The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) became the latest group to oppose the Tories’ NHS privatisation plans on Friday of last week.

The government has created a £1.5 billion bailout fund for hospitals straining under the weight of private finance debts.

They’ve pocketed billions in bonuses. They’ve wrecked the global economy. Now the fat cats want to bleed the NHS dry.