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Around 300 health workers and NHS users formed a human chain around parts of St Thomas’ Hospital in central London today, Wednesday. The action was part of a day of events to stop the Tories’ health and social care bill.

The Tories are reeling from public anger at their attacks on the welfare state. They have been forced into humiliating U-turns over their "workfare" scheme that compels the unemployed to work for free.

Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley claims doctors support his health bill.

Liberal Democrat party leaders are terrified of the flak they could take at their spring conference in Newcastle this weekend.

David Cameron and Andrew Lansley are desperate to avoid the suggestion that they are privatising the NHS.

Tory foreign secretary William Hague says he’ll JOIN a protest against health cuts in his Yorkshire constituency on 5 May.

The Tories want to flood NHS hospitals with private patients—and give NHS patients a worse service.

The government is in serious trouble over its plans for the National Health Service. Gill George explains exactly how the bill is intended to destroy the NHS as we know it

Campaigners held a noisy protest in central London this morning, Wednesday, against the Tories’ Health and Social Care Bill.

After months of public fury over the plot to sell the NHS, trade unions are starting to mobilise against it. The Unite union is calling for health workers to come to parliament to lobby their MPs on Wednesday of next week.

Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley was accosted outside Downing Street on Monday of this week.

Anger at the NHS privatisation bill could be fatal for David Cameron’s government—according to Tory cabinet ministers.