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A doctor who runs a sparsely-supported campaign in support of the government’s health "reforms" has been revealed as a leading Tory—and the head of a body that expects to profit from the changes.

The Tories are in crisis over the NHS. There is significant opposition to health secretary Andrew Lansley’s plans to hand over services to his fat cat friends.

Thousands of patients are waiting in agony because health bosses have cancelled their operations, leaders of Britain’s surgeons have revealed.

Many Londoners will have been shocked and maybe a bit frightened by the news that the capital’s ambulance service is to cut 890 jobs over the next five years.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has exposed Tory and Lib Dem lies about the NHS.

Delegates to Unison union’s annual health sector conference were in an angry mood this week.

"Day X for the NHS" on 9 March saw, for the first time in over a decade, 1,000 health workers taking to the streets of London. They came in scrubs and white coats, marching past the banks chanting, "Our NHS is not for sale, put the bankers into jail!"

Health workers were set to take action against NHS cuts this week. This comes after tens of thousands of NHS staff took to the streets on last Saturday’s TUC demonstration.

Health workers were to meet in London this week to set up a new network to resist the Tories’ cuts to the NHS.

Angry health workers and students took to the streets of London last week in a protest against cuts and Tory threats to privatise the NHS.

Doctors at an emergency union meeting this week called for an end to Tory plans to "reform" the NHS in England.

Hundreds of striking hospital cleaners, porters and domestics who work for Medirest in Southampton have vowed to bolster their 60-hour strike this week with a further walkout next week.