The NHS faces a £15.7 billion bill to settle a rising number of clinical negligence claims, a report by MPs disclosed last night.

A new bill which could aid publication of a secret legal report on the Lockerbie bomber may fail to work properly, it is claimed.

President Obama has trumpeted the temporary payroll tax cut as his major victory for middle class Americans. Unfortunately, he isn't telling you about the massive screwing over homeowners are getting to pay for a few hundred dollars in savings. Hidden in the bill that the president signed that came down from the Senate is a provision that adds a minimum monthly fee of one tenth of one percent...

Money earmarked for the costs of reorganising the NHS could have saved the jobs of 6,000 nurses, Ed Miliband has claimed.

Benefits are not an easy subject to get your head around: we have a benefits system with enough acronyms, assessments, taper rates and tax credits to make your head spin. That’s why this Government is finally undertaking a hugely important and long-overdue reform of benefits. Universal Credit will replace the complicated mix of tax credits,

House of Lords reform is one of those subjects that make most people’s eyes glaze over. But it is going to dominate the next parliamentary session. The Queen’s Speech will include a bill for elections in 2015 for 20 per cent of the seats in the Lords using a ‘Proportional Representation’ voting system. This bill will take an age to get through the Commons, where it has to s...

We’ve seen a steady stream of groups representing health professional formally oppose the Bill, with the Royal College of GPs among the most recent and significant. Many Coalition MPs and Ministers will be wondering how they can save face and pull back at this late stage. There is one way: publish the Department of Health’s Risk Register.

Royal College of General Practitioners adds 26,000 members to number of UK NHS clinical and medical staff calling for the scrapping of the bill

The Royal College of GPs has called for the controversial health bill to be scrapped branding it "damaging, unnecessary and expensive".

The Royal College of GPs calls for the health bill to be scrapped, heaping more pressure on the government's controversial reforms in England.