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‘The Tories want to poison the NHS.’ Karen Reissmann, community psychiatric nurse and Unison health executive member

Over 50 local people and health workers attended a meeting called to defend the NHS on Tuesday of last week in Waltham Forest.

The new NHS bill this week will lay the legislative foundations for the privatisation of the NHS.

Britain’s biggest health service trade union has thrown out an attempt by employers to blackmail thousands of low paid NHS workers.

Top civil servants are drawing up legislation that will hand control of up to 80 percent of the NHS budget to GPs.

The sickness of the economy has done little to dent the healthy profits of private hospitals.

Some of the lowest-paid workers in the NHS are preparing to strike this week.

Bosses are trying to blackmail more than a million NHS workers into accepting pay cuts in exchange for paper-thin "guarantees" of job security.

With health bosses around Britain preparing to implement cuts it is vital that our unions prepare for serious resistance. But it seems that some in the leadership of Unison are ready to do the opposite.

Fast food companies and the drinks industry are helping Tory and Lib Dem ministers draft their health policy.

More than 200 hospital workers in Buckinghamshire have voted to ballot for strikes.

More than 60 London ambulance workers in the GMB union protested this morning outside a meeting of the South London Healthcare NHS Trust. They are fighting to stop privatisation and have voted by over 95 percent to take strike action.