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Striking porters at Heartlands hospital in Birmingham are livid after being told they will be sacked this week—unless they sign new, worse contracts

Black and Asian people have died from coronavirus in disproportionate numbers because of disastrous Tory policies and systematic racism. And now it’s emerged that NHS England hadn’t even been counting how many had have been vaccinated. 

Years of NHS cuts and Tory mismanagement of the ­pandemic are slowing down efforts to ­vaccinate people in one of the areas hardest hit by Covid-19.

Porters at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham are preparing to strike next week.

It’s urgent that the heath unions step up campaigning to win a pay rise for all NHS workers.

A group of mainly migrant workers at a north London care home are fighting for higher pay. 

Plans to enlarge intensive care units by allowing nurses to care for more than one patient puts people at risk. Nurse and union rep Joan Pons Laplana spoke to Socialist Worker about the dangers, and why putting profit first created a disaster for the NHS

Failure to provide ambulance workers with the highest grade protective equipment is putting lives at risk, a London paramedic has told Socialist Worker.

While the NHS lurches deeper into crisis, private health care for the rich is cashing in.

Death has become a regular experience for Emily and her colleagues at Homerton Hospital in east London.

Health workers say the NHS is “on the cusp of being overwhelmed” as hospitals struggle to cope with the surge in coronavirus cases.

The NHS stands on the brink of a catastrophic breakdown.