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

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...

The Health Secretary responds to a critical select committee report by suggesting the Royal College of Nursing will not support his NHS reforms because they are a vested interest indulging in trade union-like behaviour.

It is a myth that EU rules require the UK to employ European doctors and nurses without proof that their medical skills and English are up to scratch. This is not the case and never has been.

Telegraph View: Andrew Lansley is right to take on the doctors and the nurses over pensions.

Andy Burnham urges Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to drop hs NHS reforms, saying they have little support from midwives, nurses or doctors.

The unions representing nurses and midwives join others in moving to "outright opposition" to the government's plans for the NHS in England.

George Osborne has raised the issue of local public sector pay bargaining which could see nurses, teachers, and council workers paid different rates in different parts of the country.

Nurses will be told to do regular ward rounds and patients encouraged to carry out inspections as part of a drive to improve hospital standards in England.