The government is launching a crackdown on extended NHS waiting lists of more than 18 weeks.
Patients remain at risk of poor care at two hospitals operated by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, a report warns – following a Channel 4 News investigation.
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.
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.
One Primary Care Trust spent more than £14,600 last year on staff motivation events, including an awards ceremony, executive away days and a Christmas dinner, Channel 4 News can reveal.
A leading public health doctor tells Channel 4 News that private sector “sharks are circling around the NHS” hoping to make profits from the government’s health reforms.
Are Private Finance Initiative (PFI) schemes worth the money? An expert picks apart the complex funding model for building schools, hospitals and more, for Channel 4 News.
More than 60 Private Finance Initiative (PFI) hospitals are close to financial collapse, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley warns. But a PFI expert tells Channel 4 News the row is “misleading”.
Gary Gibbon
One Lib Dem minister tells me yesterday’s vote on the NHS and the meeting with Nick Clegg on Monday showed his colleagues were “getting undisciplined”, writes Gary Gibbon.
As the NHS reform bill begins its third reading, Channel 4 News Health and Social Care Correspondent Victoria Macdonald writes that it has polarised opinion across the spectrum at Westminster.
Fears that the Government’s health reforms will mean the privatisation of the NHS are reinforced by an email exchange in which health officials consider private firms running up to 20 hospitals.
A scheme to integrate NHS patient care records is wasting millions of pounds should be ditched, according to a damning report from MPs.
Care home chain Southern Cross is being broken up after rescue attempts failed. Its 750 care homes are set to be taken over by the landlords, bringing further uncertainty for some residents.
Social care costs should be capped so people do not lose their assets according to a new review. The Dilnot report has prompted a debate on how the government would pay for any changes to the system.