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Few surprises on health in today’s Conservative manifesto
Apart from a pledge to fight dementia, most of the health measures had already been trailed. But then, the 2010 manifesto only hinted at the size of the NHS reorganisation that followed.
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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley tells Channel 4 News the Coalition is pausing on NHS reforms “to get it right”, but Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks whether it is like pausing during major surgery.
Doctors have urged the Health Secretary to abandon plans for a radical overhaul of the NHS. But the BMA stopped short of embarrassing Andrew Lansley further with a vote of no confidence.
A radical NHS shake-up, which will cause 24,500 job losses, is called “patient-centred” by Andrew Lansley but the Patients Association tells Channel 4 News it is “not convinced” as cuts start to bite.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley will include measures to ban cheap alcohol sales in the public health white paper due to be published this week.
FactCheck analyses Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s commitment to “cut the deficit, not the NHS”.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley tells MPs there is an “unprecedented level of resources available to the NHS” as a Channel 4 News FactCheck finds evidence of new cuts.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said today he has no plans to scrap health helpline NHS Direct – despite indications to the contrary in August.
Apart from a pledge to fight dementia, most of the health measures had already been trailed. But then, the 2010 manifesto only hinted at the size of the NHS reorganisation that followed.
Forty six MPs have claimed expenses for London rent or hotels despite owning a property in the capital, a Channel 4 News investigation has found.
What David Cameron said would happen before the last election – and what really happened.
Too often UN appointments are made entirely on political patronage and not at all on competence. This time the former has been tempered by the latter.
The UN is frequently accused of waste and incompetence. Maybe if they started appointing senior people on merit that might change.
“A bunch of militamen were in control of a British army base in the UK”. A whistleblower gives his shocking account of the Libyan army training fiasco to International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
More than 300 Libyan soldiers training in Britain are sent home early amid allegations of a series of sexual assaults and rapes during their stay.
I understand word has gone out to Mrs Gove to stop hitting the tweet button after a series of messages blurted out on Wednesday. They threatened to undermine the coordinated Gove/Cameron operation to minimise his pain at the reshuffle. They may have been triggered by the late realisation in the Gove household that the office of…