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As strike ballots begin in the health service activists are already organising to win a big yes vote—and are finding a mood to fight, reports Dave Sewell

Thousands of NHS patients will soon be treated by staff with just two years of intensive training rather than by a fully qualified doctor.

Workers at Care UK in Doncaster have voted unanimously for a three-week strike in their ongoing campaign to defend pay and conditions.

Civil service workers in Bootle, Merseyside, completed a six-day strike against privatisation on Thursday of last week. They provide shared services such as IT and admin for the Ministry of Justice (MOJ)

A new protest camp has caught the imagination of NHS campaigners around Britain, reports Annette Mackin

Cancer care could be privatised for the first time in the NHS’s biggest ever outsourcing of services. 

The political consensus to merge social care and the health service would be a disaster, unless the cuts are stopped and more funding is provided, writes Raymie Kiernan

Nearly 100 people attended a Campaign Against NHS Privatisation (CANP) meeting in Leicester last Saturday. It was addressed by GP Louise Irvine from the Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign.

Students at Crown Woods College in Eltham, south east London, walked out against plans to turn their school into an academy.

Doncaster Care UK workers are in their second week of a 14-day strike against savage attacks on their pay and conditions by bosses. 

A 12-hour strike by residential care workers in Neath Port Talbot, South Wales, set for Tuesday this week has been called off. A 24-hour strike has been called in its place from 7pm on Tuesday of next week.

Bosses and the RMT union agreed on a review of closures after last week’s strike, but Tube workers say prepare for more, reports Raymie Kiernan