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Sarah Ensor finds government-backed Private Finance Initiative schemes have saddled public services with ballooning debt repayments to private firms

Hospital workers and NHS campaigners are gearing up to defend jobs and services at east London’s massive Barts Health Trust.

A highly critical report on Whipps Cross hospital in east London from the Care Quality Commission received widespread coverage last week.

Health workers tell Sarah Ensor why they are joining the TUC protest for the NHS at the Tory Party conference in Manchester on Sunday 29 September

Around 1,500 angry health campaigners and health workers challenged plans to cut services at Stafford Hospital at a public meeting last week.

A report into NHS patient safety refused to blame health workers for the crisis of care and demanded the government tackle the chaos their policies have created.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt was humiliated last week after a judge quashed his plans to slash services at Lewisham Hospital following a mass campaign, reports Sadie Robinson

Unions are gearing up for a mass march at the Tory party conference in Manchester next month.

NHS campaigners are delighted at the High Court decision to quash the health secretary’s plan for cuts at Lewisham Hospital.

Health workers in Leeds and Bradford began a two-day strike today, Thursday, over cost-cutting and changes to their work patterns. The walkout follows a one-day strike last month.

An elated crowd rallied outside Lewisham Hospital in south east London this evening, Wednesday, to celebrate a court victory against the Tories.

News of the growing crisis in Britain’s A&E units finally found its way into parliament last week.