Unions and professional associations throughout the health service have come together in a campaigning alliance to try to defend the NHS and prevent the unravelling of recent years of positive progress. The campaign involves all the health unions in the TUC confederation plus organisations like the Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of Midwives that are outside the TUC. The campaign will focus on the impact of budget cuts by local NHS Trusts and the threat to jobs and service. It will also highlight problems with repeated new reforms being foisted on health workers without proper consultation.
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