Tom Clarke
Healthy cynicism: campaigners give up on government food group
The government’s key forum for healthy eating is so ineffective it should be scrapped. That’s the view of the campaigners behind Action on Sugar.
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Fears over using statins could cost lives, warns expert
A leading medical expert on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs accuses critics of misleading the public about the dangers of their use.
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Private sector workers get more pay – sometimes a lot more
Unions say that that a 1 per cent pay rise is insulting. Private sector workers say that the public sector have a cushy deal. Who actually gets paid more?
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NHS workers threaten action as government refuses pay rise
Health workers accuse the government of “taking a scalpel” to their pay after refusing to give an across the board wage rise to all members of staff.
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Victoria Macdonald
Government pushes through ‘hospital closure clause’
The government could be facing a cross-party revolt on the care bill, which would give it greater powers to close or downgrade hospital services.
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Victoria Macdonald
Rethinking social care: experts back a ‘fundamental shift’ in delivery
An unusually high number of reports on the care system in England are being released this week – all of them are urging a rethink of the way health and care are delivered.
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Victoria Macdonald
Jeremy Hunt breaks up Mid Staffs Foundation Trust
Mid-Staffs NHS trust became a byword for neglectful, inhumane care. And with a trashed reputation, and an £11m deficit, turning it around is no longer an option.
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Victoria Macdonald
Government ‘must act’ to reassure patients over NHS data sharing
With just seven weeks until a national roll-out of the care.data scheme, which will see anonymous patient data shared, doctors are joining those calling for the government to explain the benefits of the scheme.
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Victoria Macdonald
Alder Hey Children’s hospital: too slow to change?
Nearly four years after an internal review of operating theatres triggered a safety warning from the one of its own Trust executives, why are Alder Hey staff still raising concerns?
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Statin of the nation: millions more could be prescribed
Millions of Britons already take statins, but many more could now be prescribed the cholesterol-lowering drug in a bid to prevent heart disease. But what about living more healthily instead?
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS reform: a year on from the Francis report into Mid-Staffs, what has changed?
Published exactly a year ago, the Francis report triggered a plethora of reviews into how the NHS is run. But have they led to real improvements in service at a time of extreme financial pressure?
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Victoria Macdonald
NHS must do more to prove that patient data is safe
The row over plans to extract GPs’ patient records and put them onto a massive database shows no signs of abating. And the fact that NHS data is constantly compromised.
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Victoria Macdonald
Benefit reforms could push full-time carers into debt and food poverty
Full-time carers, who take a huge spending burden off government, are facing a £1bn cut in support over the next four years.
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Victoria Macdonald
What can Nice do when health providers are naughty?
Patients are once again facing a postcode lottery over which drugs they are prescribed. So what can the body that approves treatments for the NHS do to change this?
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Victoria Macdonald
Patients’ dilemma over rise in high-risk organ donations
In the push to boost the number of organ donors in the UK – where donations are among the lowest in Europe – patients are being given organs from smokers, drug users and cancer sufferers.
