NHS Follow

Two huge marches to defend local services show a mood to defend the NHS, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Health workers at St George’s Hospital in south London struck for equal pay and conditions on Tuesday.

Adult social care services in England are at “tipping point”, according to the Care Quality Commission watchdog.

Around 100 people marched through Norwich last Saturday against a hospital ward closure.

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Campaigning has pushed an estate agent to take down from its website a property on the Butterfields estate in Walthamstow, north London.

The battlelines in the fight to defend the NHS have been drawn as junior doctors plan three five-day walkouts in the run-up to Christmas.

Junior doctors have stopped an attempt to end their fight against Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s imposition of a dangerous new contract.

The NHS crisis is so deep that even top managers say it is near breaking point.

The British Medical Association (BMA) suspended a planned five-day strike today, Monday.