Hospital trusts need to do more to tackle the problem of foreign patients who avoid paying for NHS care, a senior doctor has said as an investigation ...
There is strong public support for forcing cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging in England, an opinion poll found, amid a row over government plan...
A ban on tobacco promotion comes into force on Friday in a bid to cut down on the number of people smoking. The new legislation means all large sho...
Confidence among GPs that the Government's NHS reforms will improve patient care has almost halved since they were first proposed, an opinion poll sho...
The solution used to preserve most donor organs in the UK could be contaminated with bacteria, the government has said. Viaspan preserves the kidne...
Succcessive governments were warned of rising evidence about the inadequacy of PIP implants but did very little to stop them. This is the finding f...
Ministers were warned 18 months ago of the risk that NHS reforms could lead to a loss of financial control, reduced productivity and emergencies being...
Around 7,000 more women in the UK have received potentially faulty PIP breast implants than previously thought, the government revealed on Thursday af...
Around 7,000 more women in the UK have received potentially faulty PIP breast implants than previously thought, the Government has revealed on Thursda...
Family doctors' leaders have offered an olive branch to ministers in their bitter battle over the Government's NHS reforms. The Royal College of Ge...
Liberal Democrats will vote on Sunday on proposals calling for the party to back controversial health reforms after a rebel bid to kill off the plans ...
A Government appeal will be heard on Monday against a ruling which says it must publish a risk assessment of its controversial NHS reforms. In Nove...
The beauty supplement which helps keep skin healthy could also act as a catalyst for type 2 diabetes, a recent study has discovered. Selenium supp...
The party of the NHS? We shouldn't be afraid to expose this as the greatest joke in politics. At a time when the NHS needs reform to ensure its survival in the face of unprecedented demographic change, Labour cannot be trusted with the NHS. All they do, all they will ever do, is waste your money, and defend the interests of producers over patients.
Ed Miliband is appealing to Liberal Democrat peers to join with Labour to wreck the Government's controversial NHS reforms. The Health and Social Car...
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has managed to scrape through another political week without any major disasters blighting his ministry or NHS reforms...
GPs have been over-paid millions of pounds for patients who have moved practice, died or been forced to leave the country, according to a new report. ...
David Cameron will attempt to shore up support for the Government's controversial NHS reforms today with a Downing Street summit on moves to give GPs ...
More than £600 million could be spent on NHS redundancies in one year as a result of the government's controversial reforms, figures show. Estimat...
Labour has written to the top civil servant at the Cabinet Office over alleged briefing from Downing Street against Andrew Lansley, including a claim ...
The future for women who've had PIP breast implants carries "significant uncertainty", a senior director of the NHS has told MPs on Tuesday morning, a...
The number of claims made against the NHS for clinical negligence has risen by 9% in the last year, as new figures show the taxpayer is liable for up ...
Regularly drinking two large glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day triples the risk of developing mouth cancer, a new Government campaign ...
Ed Miliband called for a concerted effort to force the Government to abandon its health reforms, warning critics had only three months to halt a "dang...
Making the right food choices is never easy. And a month after Christmas, I am sure a fair number of us are still regretting eating quite as much as we did over the festive period.
