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Hundreds of striking hospital cleaners, porters and domestics who work for Medirest in Southampton have vowed to bolster their 60-hour strike this week with a further walkout next week.

Speech and language therapists in south London were buoyed last week by news that cuts to their service will not be a big as initially feared.

Thousands of Londoners face losing their GP because NHS managers are pioneering a cost-saving initiative to remove "ghost patients".

Health workers are furious with Tory plans to "reform" the NHS.

Angry health workers and students took to the streets of the City of London yesterday (Wednesday) in a protest against cuts and Tory threats to privatise the NHS.

The Department of Health is in talks to consider which parts of NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) could be sold to the private sector to make the service more "commercially competitive".

Health workers in London have called a "Day X for the NHS" in response to growing NHS job losses and cuts.

The Tories’ false NHS promises were laid bare last week as more than 1,000 job losses were announced.

A lively protest greeted GPs and hospital doctors as they arrived at the London regional meeting of the British Medical Association (BMA) on Thursday of last week.

Homerton Hospital Up to 300 people rallied outside Homerton Hospital in Hackney, east London, last Saturday.

The Tory pledge to keep the NHS safe from cuts is revealed as a lie this week as speech therapists in Southwark, south London, prepare to strike.

Cleaners in Southampton NHS trust struck on Monday of this week against plans to cut their sick pay. This is the third strike in six weeks at Southampton General Hospital.