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For the first time ever health bosses plan to hand over the management of an entire NHS district hospital to a private company.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde managers have announced plans to slash 1,252 jobs by 2011 including 670 nurses and midwives.

Fighting back can halt the cuts.

Campaigners for the Whittington hospital in north London were holding a day of action today in jubilant mood today as health secretary Andy Burnham was forced to confirm that vital services there would not be axed.

Campaigners against the closure of key wards at north London’s Whittington Hospital were holding a day of action on Thursday this week, focusing on a rally from 12 noon at the hospital.

Activists, staff and service users lobbied to defend a vital alcohol and drug dependency service in south London. The protest at Marina House in Camberwell last Wednesday was small but well received.

There’s lots of cash floating around the NHS. But it isn’t going to those who keep our hospitals running or look after the sick.

More than 50 people met in west London tonight (Wednesday) to oppose cuts at Ealing Hospital.

The anonymous accusers of sacked nurse Yunus Bakhsh were finally revealed at an employment tribunal last week. It is more than three years since they gave evidence that was important in the case against Yunus.

John Lister from the Health Emergency group talked to pensioners in London last week about NHS cuts.

Four hundred people attended a meeting in north London to defend Accident and Emergency services under threat at the Whittington Hospital.

Around 5,000 protesters took to the streets of Islington, north London, last Saturday to defend key services under threat at Whittington hospital.