NHS
The best way to tackle health inequalities, Mr Cameron, is to tackle all inequality
The reason why the Tory health policy will fail is that you cannot attack major societal inequalities like health inequality without attacking inequality itself
“£134 million black hole” in Scotland’s health budget
Scotland’s largest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is said to be considering cutting spending on nurses in a bid to plug what a huge budget deficit.
EXPOSED: The Sun’s false claims that NHS spending “hasn’t gone on nursing staff”
Left Foot Forward reveals the truth behind the Tory-supporting Sun’s alarming claims about NHS spending - there were 72,000 extra nurses between 1998 and 2008.
Calling time on cheap booze
Special report on how a minimum price for alcohol could save the country billions of pounds and millions of lives.
Lansley’s market dogma at odds with OECD health study
A major new report by the OECD has criticised those who advocate a purely market-based approach to healthcare as “zealots”, and severely attacks the US system.
Controversy as cancer drug deemed “too expensive” for NHS
A drug which prolongs the life of liver cancer patients has been deemed “too expensive” by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence.