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The prospect of a massive strike by public sector workers in the autumn took another step forwards yesterday (Wednesday).

Hundreds of campaigners against Tory plans to "reform" the NHS joined a lobby of parliament last week.

A hospital that David Cameron vowed to save while in opposition is set to lose its A&E and maternity units.

Tory plans to wreck the NHS and hand the remains to their private sector buddies were set to take a step forwards this week.

A private firm whose wealthy clients were given donor organs bought from children is in talks to run parts of the NHS.

The Tories’ Health and Social Care Bill will go to parliament again on Wednesday of next week.

Leaks suggest that Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley will announce plans next month to merge Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, north London, with another trust.

Demonstrators braved torrential rain last Saturday to protest against the Health and Social Care Bill, which threatens mass privatisation in the NHS and £20 billion of cuts.

Hundreds of health workers and campaigners marched on parliament on Thursday of last week.

Delegates to the doctors’ BMA union conference last week called for the complete withdrawal of the government’s health and social care bill.

Campaigners across Britain were set to celebrate the NHS’s 63rd birthday this week—and pledge to defend it from the Tories.

Dr David Nunn, a leading orthopaedic consultant at St Thomas Hospital in London, made the news when he ordered a Sky camera crew out of his ward for not rolling their sleeves up.