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The economist Joseph Schumpeter had a fine phrase to describe market competition - it's all about "creative destruction". Market enthusiasts love the creative bit. They tend to keep quiet about the destructive side. And this is especially so if the destruction potentially involves the biggest care home provider for the elderly in Britain.

NHS campaigners across London are in a buoyant mood as they prepare for a major demonstration in May against the government’s health service "reforms".

A doctor who runs a sparsely-supported campaign in support of the government’s health "reforms" has been revealed as a leading Tory—and the head of a body that expects to profit from the changes.

The Tories are in crisis over the NHS. There is significant opposition to health secretary Andrew Lansley’s plans to hand over services to his fat cat friends.

Thousands of patients are waiting in agony because health bosses have cancelled their operations, leaders of Britain’s surgeons have revealed.

Many Londoners will have been shocked and maybe a bit frightened by the news that the capital’s ambulance service is to cut 890 jobs over the next five years.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has exposed Tory and Lib Dem lies about the NHS.

Delegates to Unison union’s annual health sector conference were in an angry mood this week.

Health workers were set to take action against NHS cuts this week. This comes after tens of thousands of NHS staff took to the streets on last Saturday’s TUC demonstration.

Health workers were to meet in London this week to set up a new network to resist the Tories’ cuts to the NHS.

Angry health workers and students took to the streets of London last week in a protest against cuts and Tory threats to privatise the NHS.

Doctors at an emergency union meeting this week called for an end to Tory plans to "reform" the NHS in England.