NHS
Health ringfence is not enough to protect the NHS
Health spending has always been a public priority: PwC recently found that 67 per cent of people support protecting the NHS - up from 58 per cent in 2010.
Mid-Staffordshire: Why the police investigation must not target powerless NHS workers
Labour was in government during the period in which the Mid–Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust presided over the abuse and neglect of thousands of patients, leading to many deaths.
Saving Lewisham hospital – saving the NHS
Last week I visited my GP surgery. After a much more protracted wait than any prior visit, I was given a homily about the state of the NHS, advised that it might be easier to seek a scan (already advised by another practitioner) through a private route.
Jeremy Hunt’s Catherine Wheel of spin
"That is the most extraordinary speech I have heard from a secretary of state for Health in all my years in this House - this is the first speech in which a secretary of state has claimed he is not responsible for anything."
A&E waiting times at 9-year high
The number of patients having to wait more than four hours in A&E has reached its highest level in nine years.
Ring-fencing the NHS and schools is no longer viable
The chancellor went on the Today programme this morning to trumpet his success in getting seven government departments to agree on their budgets for 2015-16 as part of the Spending Review that he will announce on 26 June. It is reported that they have all agreed to cuts of between 8 and 10 per cent.