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

Ed Miliband will today accuse the Government of directly damaging frontline patient care with its unnecessary and unwanted top-down reorganisation of the NHS.

The NHS spends £64,000 a day on translation services, a report has found.

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

Ed Miliband will today (Monday) accuse the Government of directly damaging frontline patient care with its unnecessary and unwanted top-down reorganisation of the NHS. Talking today about frontline pressure right across the NHS, he will point to new figures released by Labour that show the number of NHS nurses has now fallen by 3,500 since the general election and that indicate the total fall in n...

Head of Anglian Community Enterprise says roster of contracts already won highlights a cultural shift and underpins government’s big idea

... to save the NHS, says Ed Miliband. My first thought was, gosh, that's nice, three months in which to kill it. I suspect that I am in a minority: the outpouring of love, loyalty and vows to defend the NHS unto death from the Guardian commenters to this report and to Miliband's own article resemble nothing so much as the frenzied cries of "Deus vult!" that greeted Pope Urban II when he...

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.

Thanks to the wonders of medical science and an uncharacteristically prompt service from the NHS, I can now hear properly out of my right ear. Mrs Sane has nagged me for a long time about my bad hearing so a few months ago I went to see my GP about it.  A nice student doctor

@RichardJMurphy Richard Murphy The NHS is far too important to be left at the mercy of ideological and incompetent intervention   Quite so, quite so, which is why we need to remove it from the control of politicians. You know, those incompetents who gain their position of power over us and the NHS through ideology?