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In-brief stories on books for prisoners, GPs want early retirement due to cuts, new job losses at Royal Mail, and cuts to specialist diabetes nurses

Roger Hutt, a Care UK striker, is clear about the Tories’ aims for the health service. “Our society is defined by how we look after the most vulnerable,” he said. “But this lot want to erode our NHS and the welfare state.”

Some 150 workers at Ealing Hospital began a seven-day strike on Friday of last week to demand better pay.

Doncaster care workers were set to begin their second seven-day strike on Wednesday of this week over attacks on evening and weekend wages.

About 90 people attended South Gloucestershire health scrutiny meeting on Wednesday of last week to show support for Cossham Hospital gaining a minor injuries unit. 

Nurses are furious at their effective pay cut after MPs got an automatic 11 percent raise, reports Judith Orr

Some 180 people including workers, carers and service users packed into the council chamber at Stockport Town Hall on Thursday of last week.

A sit-in protest was staged at an NHS clinic in Cambridge by campaigners trying to stop a mental health service being cut.

Yorkshire Ambulance workers struck for five hours on Monday of this week in a row over shift patterns.

The Tories’ latest plans for cancer and terminal care in Staffordshire exposes their vision for the future of the NHS.

Vital services are to be stripped at Stafford Hospital after Tory health secretary Jeremy Hunt announced the troubled Mid Staffs NHS trust will be dissolved.

Health workers and activists held a lively public meeting in Whitechapel on Wednesday of last week to discuss changes to local specialist cancer services.