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Health bosses across Britain are threatening thousands of job cuts and a new wave of hospital closures—and that’s before the government’s spending review in October.

Some 300 people in the pathology department at King’s College Hospital in London are to be balloted for strike action against privatisation. The workers are in the Unite union.

Workers who transport patients between hospitals for South London Healthcare NHS Trust have voted to strike over plans to privatise their work.

Campaigners reacted with fury last week at Tory plans to scrap NHS Direct.

Activists from the Defend Whittington Hospital and Chase Farm Hospital campaigns in north London came together on Thursday of last week to hand in a petition at the department of health against plans for closures at London’s hospitals.

Two London hospitals that were saved after protests are again under threat, a leaked letter reveals.

The fight has started against the Tory government’s plans to dismantle the NHS.

The NHS will pay a total of £1.26 billion for the privately-built Edinburgh Royal Infirmary—but not own it.

Job cuts in the NHS have already started.

The Conservatives have plenty of pals in the private healthcare industry – that’s plain to see from the list of people who funded the Tory election campaign.

Health funding is becoming an ever more contentious issue as more and more groups realise what the "GP-led" funding system will mean for them.

Hundreds marched through the streets of Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire to defend their local hospital last Saturday.