Peers have been urged to support a move to let hospitals do more private sector work as plans to overhaul the NHS in England return to the Lords.

Most toxic is the role of commercial competition, with Monitor acting as enforcer. By opening every NHS corner to “any qualified provider”, the whole service can be taken over by private companies, with a few token charities and mutuals. NHS hospitals, cherry-picked of lucrative work, risk bankruptcy when left with only complex cases. Stroke care

Relatives of vulnerable and infirm patients are excluded during mealtimes at some hospitals, say Assembly Members.

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 number of admitted patients who waited longer than 18 weeks in Southampton has increased by 70% under this Tory-led Government, and it still increasing now. John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, said: "In Southampton we have now seen waiting-times increase by 70% since David Cameron came to power. This is bad news, but the Tory-led Government's plan to encourage local hospitals t...

Labour must promise voters more power to improve schools and hospitals and take tougher action against the "robber barons" of big business to win the next election, Liam Byrne, the party's policy strategist, says.

Circle’s takeover of Hinchingbrooke stops short of full privatisation but it is seen as a test case that could pave the way for other cash-strapped NHS hospitals

“Tax provides the funding to run the country: hospitals, schools and everything else,” he says. “Every time someone pays cash in order not to pay VAT, the nation gets diddled.” The nation is not the government, the nation is not the government finances. The nation contains within it the government, of course, contains the government

People who pay tradesmen cash in hand are "diddling" the economy and diverting money from hospitals and schools, the country's most senior taxman warns in an interview with The Telegraph.

Sir David stresses need to concentrate NHS services in fewer centres rather than hospitals cutting corners trying to deliver a full service on smaller budget