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Porters in Dundee are the second set of workers to start an indefinite walkout, reports Raymie Kiernan

Plans to merge NHS and social care in Manchester won’t empower patients or carers but drive the market even deeper into health

Health workers met in Liverpool this week as a new survey revealed the severe crisis gripping the NHS. 

Around 300 people joined a march and rally in support of hospital porters at Ninewells and Victoria Hospitals in Dundee last Saturday. The porters began an indefinite strike on Tuesday of this week.

Victimised Unison union rep and Whipps Cross Hospital worker Charlotte Monro has been reinstated by Barts Health NHS Trust in east London.

Campaigners branded a public inquiry into the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS a “whitewash” last week. 

David Cameron last week pledged to bring in a “truly seven-day NHS”, if the Tories get back in—by smashing health workers’ pay structure.

Barts Health, the largest NHS trust in England, is now in special measures following a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report into Whipps Cross Hospital. The trust was formed as a result of a merger between Barts and the London, Newham University Hospital and Whipps Cross in 2013. The chief executive, Peter Morris; the chief nurse...

Porters strike over pay in Dundee | Woolwich wage walkout suspended | Support Charlotte Monro at tribunal

Members of the largest health workers’ union, Unison, have voted by two thirds to accept a pay offer put to them after union leaders wrongly called off strikes last month. The turnout was 17 percent.

Top bosses at Barts Health NHS Trust in east London resigned last week amid a growing financial crisis. Chief executive Peter Morris and chief nurse Kay Riley went a fortnight after it reported a £93 million budget deficit. 

NHS bosses have awarded private health giant Optum “preferred bidder” status on NHS contracts while the firm is in court for allegedly defrauding US hospices.