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England has had “the longest continuous period of excess mortality” and “the highest levels of excess mortality” in Europe.

Health workers’ fury burst onto the streets of London on Wednesday as over 1,500 marched on Downing Street.

Health workers are in revolt over the Tory refusal to give a pay rise to hundreds of thousands of people who work in the NHS.

Under the cover of coronavirus, the Tories have used the real need to stock up on personal protective equipment and other much needed supplies to hand over billions of pounds to private companies. Tomáš Tengely-Evans investigates

“Systemic failings” by the health service have ruined the lives of untold numbers of women and their children

 Tory prime minister Boris Johnson has begun the process of passing the blame for the coronavirus crisis. 

Some 35,000 more people could die of cancer because of delays to diagnosis and treatment during the coronavirus crisis.

Health campaigners marked the 72nd birthday of the NHS last weekend with a series of protests against Tory cuts and privatisation.

The Midlands city of Leicester is the first in England to have a local lockdown in response to an upsurge in coronavirus cases. But while mainstream commentators have encouraged racist explanations, it’s the Tories who have put people at risk

Doctors protested outside Downing Street on Tuesday to “highlight the risks of indoor spread”.

The Tory plan to reopen businesses across England comes as Covid-19 continues to kill hundreds every week, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Richard Horton, the longstanding editor of the medical journal The Lancet, is scathing about the establishment’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. He told Socialist Worker why.