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NHS protest against Lansley's bill in London May 2011, photo by Paul Mattsson
8 February 2012
The NHS is being broken apart by the hammer blows raining down on it from the Con-Dem government. Huge job cuts and closures of hospital wards and departments, including A&E, are wreaking havoc.
25 January 2012
Pontefract hospital: Army withdrawn - now kick out PFI!
At Pontefract hospital in West Yorkshire NHS bosses had been in discussion about using army medics to help run the accident and emergency unit, writes Adrian O'Malley, Unison Mid Yorkshire Health branch secretary (personal capacity).
2 November 2011
Lansley closes another hospital A&E department
Government health minister, Andrew Lansley, has decided to press ahead with the closure of the A&E department and maternity services at the King George Hospital in Goodmayes, east London
March to save the NHS 17 May 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
28 September 2011
PFI schemes - a national scandal
Stop the health service cutbacks!: Tory health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has said that 60 hospitals in 22 National Health Service (NHS) Trusts are facing severe financial difficulties and are making cutbacks because of rip-off payments owed under Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts...
7 September 2011
The British Medical Association (BMA) doctors' organisation has called for the government's destructive Health and Social Care Bill to be withdrawn or 'significantly amended'...
3 August 2011
The great PFI schools rip off - once again!
Before the 2010 general election Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg was correct when he said Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes are "a bit of dodgy accounting - a way in which the government can pretend they're not borrowing when they are
Forest Hill school strike, Lewisham, June 2011, photo Martin Powell Davies
23 June 2011
'No redundancies!' say Forest Hill school teachers
NUT members at Forest Hill school in Lewisham had a one-day strike against compulsory redundancies
22 June 2011
PFI man: Predictably many Tory backbenchers regard the prime minister's cosmetic changes to the government's health and social care bill as a capitulation...
25 May 2011
Challenging Tories' plans to kill our health service
About 40 people gathered at a meeting, called by Defend the NHS, at the West Kirby Social Club, Wirral, on 20 May to quiz Tory MP, Esther McVey on the NHS white paper, writes Andy Ford, Unite North West regional health committee.
photo Paul Mattsson
20 April 2011
Kick big business out of health care
United action to defend NHS: Last week nurses, delegates to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) conference, rejected Tory health secretary Andrew Lansley's backdoor privatisation health bill by a massive 99% to 1%.
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