NHS reforms threatened again – will Lords revolt?
NHS reforms may yet face further opposition in the House of Lords, reports Gary Gibbon
The Royal College of Physicians agrees to a request by a group of its members to call an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the NHS bill, writes Victoria Macdonald.
In a letter rejecting the BMA’s “blanket opposition” to the new health and social care bill, senior doctors say the NHS will be in “peril” if government health reforms are derailed.
Plans to reform the NHS in England are set to be heavily criticised by an influential cross-party group of MPs but the health minister tells Channel 4 News the NHS “has to evolve”.
NHS reforms may yet face further opposition in the House of Lords, reports Gary Gibbon
A cosmetic surgeon tells Channel 4 News he warned the government 17 months ago that French-made breast implants would become a “national health scare”.
The Royal College of Surgeons calls for an implant database in the wake of the breast implant scandal – but Channel 4 News learns that this was discussed, and was shelved because of previous failures.
Social care experts have written to the government urging it to overhaul England’s “failing” social care system, which they say is leaving 800,000 elderly people “lonely, isolated and at risk”.
Exclusive: GPs say they have firm evidence now that the government is planning to privatise the National Health Service as part of its reforms.
A report from the Royal College of Nursing warning of a staffing crisis at the NHS is dismissed by health secretary Andrew Lansley as “scaremongering”.
Three hundred paediatricians and child care workers call on the government to rethink its plans to change the way NHS services are funded in England, as Victoria Macdonald reports.
As a report finds one-fifth of NHS hospitals are falling below legally required levels of care, one of the trusts criticised concedes that the quality of nursing care across the country is variable.
The government rules out a “fat tax” and calls on individuals to eat less and exercise more, in its new obesity strategy.
As trade unionists, anti-cuts campaigners and health workers demonstrate in protest at planned health reforms, Lord Owen warns that the NHS could be unrecognisable in 10 years’ time.
The hall at the Tory party conference isn’t exactly packed for a speech on the NHS, writes Gary Gibbon – who is also keeping one ear out for the latest on “catgate”.
A letter signed by over 400 doctors and health specialists urges peers to reject the coalition’s health and social care bill, saying it will damage individuals and society as a whole.