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While the government continues with plans to further push the market into all parts of the health service, campaigners against privatisation have responded by issuing a call for a day of marches, stunts and protests on Saturday 14 February.

A most extraordinary scandal has been exposed in the case of Yunus Bakhsh, a health worker who has been sacked by his employer and expelled from the Unison union.

It has shockingly come to light that the allegations against Yunus Bakhsh were available to Nazis before Yunus knew what they were.

A legal fund has been launched for Karen Reissmann, the Manchester mental health nurse who was sacked for speaking out against privatisation.

Over 800 people gathered in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, last Saturday to demonstrate against proposals to close the local hospital’s accident and emergency department.

Thousands of health workers in the Unite union held a work-to-rule on Wednesday of last week to protest against the government’s three-year below inflation pay deal.

Health worker Yunus Bakhsh began his appeal last week against the decision by his employers to sack him.

NHS trade union activists in the Unite union are gearing up for a day of action over pay on Wednesday 3 December.

Britain’s biggest public sector union has expelled one of its best-known activists following a campaign against him that has lasted for nearly two years.

If you’ve got money maybe you can buy some extra life. If you haven’t you’re only worth what the NHS can afford. That will be the effect of the government’s decision last week to allow cancer patients to pay for extra drugs without forfeiting NHS treatment.

Supporters of Karen Reissmann – the sacked nurse who spoke out about the dangers of cuts and privatisation in mental health services in Manchester – launched a legal defence fund this week.

The Unite union is balloting 100,000 health workers on a derisory three-year pay award. If a yes vote is recorded, we could see the first national action over NHS pay for many years.