Privatisation Follow

Management consultancy firm McKinsey and Company have spent thousands of pounds on lavish events for top NHS regulators.

Council workers in Barnet were set to strike on Thursday of this week in the latest stage of their long-running battle against privatisation.

Doctors, nurses, health workers and patients are lining up to defend the NHS from Tory minister Andrew Lansley’s privatisation plot. So just whose support are Lansley and his pals counting on?

The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) became the latest group to oppose the Tories’ NHS privatisation plans on Friday of last week.

Remploy workers in the Unite and GMB unions struck in Glasgow and Chesterfield on Thursday of last week. They are fighting what they call the "semi-privatisation" of their factories.

Revenue and Customs (HMRC) workers struck on Tuesday against privatisation. Some 20,000 PCS union members took action.

Council workers in Barnet, north London, plan to strike for a third time against privatisation on Thursday of next week.

A special meeting of councillors in Edinburgh last Thursday voted by 31 to 23 to end plans to privatise a swathe of council services.

Government plans to outsource NHS commissioning hit obstacles on Tuesday of this week.

Some 2,000 Edinburgh city council staff could see their jobs transferred to private contractors under council plans.

Revenue and Customs (HMRC) workers in the PCS union were set to strike this coming Monday.

Council tenants in Swindon have rejected the transfer of their 10,500 homes to a new housing association. They voted by over 72 percent to maintain public ownership.