The Guardian reports: Seven hospital trusts struggling with crippling private finance initiative debts are to receive £1.5bn in emergency funding from the government to help them avoid cutting patient services to pay their bills. The Department of Health is making the £1.5bn available – in grants, not loans – to the seven hospital trusts in

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.

Seven hospital trusts will get a £1.5 billion taxpayer bail-out because they are at "severe risk" of failing patients, the Department of Health said today.

The Department of Health is planning to bar independent organisations such as BPAS from offering abortion counselling to women in an already-agreed "stitch-up", I can reveal today. The plans are in place even though Nadine Dorries lost her vote in Parliament last year to stop organisations that provided abortion services to offer counselling. A source who was close to Dorries' campaign said t...

Parents of children who require braces could be expected to pay for the NHS service under new proposals by the Department of Health.

David Cameron has presided over a dramatic 16 per cent increase in delayed hospital discharges over the last 16 months, new figures reveal. Department of Health figures for November published today show there are now more than 64,000 days of delayed discharges every month – up from 55,000 in August 2010 (the month from which new figures have been collected). The monthly cost of these delays ...

Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to reports that the Department of Health has proposed that everyone aged between 40 and 72 will be offered a regular free ‘health MoT’ by their local authority, said:

Last week we debated in the Lords the decision of the Government to appeal against the decision by the Information Commissioner that the Department of Health should release the so-called Risk Register on the Health and Social Care Bill. Together with my colleague Shirley Williams, I argued that it is right that the Department appealed

Department of Health launches consultation to lift ban on HIV-positive health workers that has been in place for 20 years.

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, said in response to the Government's decision to appeal the Information Commissioner's ruling that the Department of Health should publish its Risk Register: