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THE BMA yesterday called on David Cameron to set out the detail of his plans for more seven-day NHS services. The BMA said:...

SIR Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England, says that the basic principles of the NHS, ‘free healthcare at the point of need’ must...

THE British Medical Association (BMA) is today warning against NHS charging. Responding to Lord Warner’s call to introduce charging patients a monthly fee to...

‘CHILDREN’S lives are in danger!’ Surinder Grewal warned on the mass picket of Ealing Hospital in west London yesterday to stop the closure of...

OVER 30 GMB members held a lively picket of the private contractor ISS at the company’s HQ in the South Quay Building, Canary Wharf,...

MORE than a third of GPs on the boards of the new clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England have a conflict of interest resulting...

THE UNIONS will call off next week’s NHS strike if a ‘tangible offer emerges as a result of current talks with Tory health secretary...

THE Speaker of the Syrian People’s Assembly, Jihad Al-Lahham, has written an open letter to John Boehner, the speaker of the US House of...

TENS of thousands of low paid workers on Universal Credit may not be paid over the festive season or may get a reduced payment. Those...

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) Annual Conference in Torquay yesterday voted unanimously to ballot for strike action against any government move to attack...

‘TREATING patients on corridor trolleys should belong to a bygone era. Ministers must stop us heading back there at all costs. ‘It’s undignified and less...

MANY http://www.wrp.org.uk/admin.php?op=adminStorypatients who had been waiting seven-hours in the A&E department at Edmonton’s North Middlesex Hospital were told on Friday night to go home...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has launched a back-stabbing attack on the British Airways workers and their union, demanding that their strike planned to...

PM MAY’S Brexit Withdrawal Bill will not be published or debated until early June, the government said yesterday as she came under more pressure...

SHADOW Health Secretary Jon Ashworth pledged yesterday that a future Labour government would ditch the Tory 1% pay cap for NHS staff and restore...

THE local community, backed by Unison, has launched a campaign to stop the privatisation of the patient transport service (PTS) within Greater Manchester. At a...

SCHOOL students are being packed like sardines into state schools with a third of councils having to rent extra space in empty offices to...

THE Greek coalition government has once again failed in a parliamentary vote to elect its candidate Stavros Dimas as the new President of the...

TWENTY-NINE Palestinian civilians have been killed and 3,000 wounded by Israeli snipers and tanks firing at unarmed demonstrators near the Gaza border over the...

THE financial crisis facing the North of Ireland’s Health Trusts is so severe that four out of five Trusts have failed to break even...

BORIS Johnson came under fire yesterday for boycotting last night’s Channel 4 debate between the candidates for the Tory party leadership and the position...

A fifth day of anti-government protests raged in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and other cities on Monday, paralysing much of the country amid rising...

HEALTH professionals yesterday condemned coalition government moves to bar immigrants from access to healthcare, and charge overseas visitors a £200 fee to qualify...

MANCHESTER Go North West strikers were out yesterday mass picketing the depot as part of their indefinite strike. Go North West Unite branch secretary Pat...

THE increasing marketisation of the education system is putting profit before the interests of pupils, teachers and the public, representatives at the Annual Conference...

THE HAMAS military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades said on Thursday that they had killed eight Israeli soldiers in northeastern Gaza City in what was...

THE CANCER breast screening scandal has been exacerbated by news that the call handlers on the hotline set up by health secretary Jeremy Hunt...

‘GOVE must go!’ was the common chant of tens of thousands of teachers taking part in a second series of joint NUT-NASUWT regional strikes...

A HIGH Court Judge in London ruled yesterday that the government’s decision to close the Independent Living Fund (ILF) is lawful. The Tories plan to...

SOUTHERN rail owner Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) yesterday launched a legal bid to stop ASLEF’s strike action. GTR issued proceedings at the High Court to...

THE GAUNTLET has been thrown down on hospital demolition plans with health bosses told to ‘think again’, said Hammersmith & Fulham...

BUCKETS of cold water have been poured on Tory plans for patients to see their GP over the internet rather than face-to-face. The pilot...

PARENTS of two young girls killed on an Essex level crossing in 2005 accused Network Rail of a cover-up yesterday, after the rail privateer...

THE Education system is ‘sleepwalking towards centralisation’ with up to 24,000 schools and governing bodies accountable solely to the Secretary of State. New research, conducted...

BILLIONAIRE financial speculator George Soros warned yesterday that the German economy is going to totter in the Autumn, when the crisis will ‘come to...

‘Save Legal Aid!’ barristers and solicitors are demanding as they take historic strike action today, starting with a 9.30-10.30am demonstration outside Westminster Magistrates Court,...

VIDEO footage has emerged showing a Palestinian being shot in the head by an Israeli soldier at point-blank range despite lying motionless and severely...

TORY Brexit Secretary David Davis yesterday urged MPs to reject the two House of Lords amendments to the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill....

More than 400 posts are at risk at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust as part of proposals to save £30 million in the...

BBC Asian Network went on a 24-hour strike yesterday against the axing of one out of two editor posts in Birmingham and moving a...

BANK of England Governor Mervyn King was rattled yesterday after the latest UK inflation figures showed that prices are still soaring. Although the figures for...

The Private Finance Initiative ‘will burden local health economies for decades’ and drive forward cuts and closures, the British Medical Association (BMA) warned this...

THE NORTH Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) has been unveiled, only the second in the country to do so, and it has...

THE LABOUR Party is backing a cross-party bid to ensure the UK cannot leave the EU without a deal, knifing in the back the...

A RECORD number of children are being forced to rely on food banks in order to survive, with the numbers expected to surge...