The European Parliament's Liberal and socialist leaders, Guy Verhofstadt and Hannes Swoboda, gave their support to the Romanian opposition during a public hearing over the democratic situation there, as protests continue in Bucharest over an unpopular healthcare reform bill. More »

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc has reappointed popular Deputy Health Minister Raed Arafat, whose resignation last week over proposed healthcare reforms sparked violent protests across the country. More »

The breast implant scandal was "an inevitable result" of "paralysis" at the healthcare regulator, according to the editor of The Lancet, who has accused it of having a "do nothing" attitude.

Government efforts to enact a controversial healthcare bill sparked protests, some violent, that mushroomed into demonstrations of broader discontent over the economy and national leadership. More »

Newsnight's Peter Marshall challenges Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum on what he meant when he said that healthcare policies had brought down the British Empire.

The Independent Healthcare Advisory Service, which represents all the major cosmetic surgery chains, is calling on the government’s expert working group, which begins its investigation on Wednesday, to look carefully at new figures it has obtained from an audit of all its members. The figures, from thousands of patients, show a rupture rate within the

Yesterday the government said it was planning to let NHS trusts raise half of income from private healthcare. There are a few important points to keep in mind regarding this accouncement.

One might (perhaps) expect that less wealthy areas of England would have a higher proportion of children identified as having Special Educational Needs (SEN). Not so, according to this graph on page 103 of the NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare (November 2011 edition): Using a measure called Indices of Multiple Deprivation and correlating it with the proportion of primary age children with a SEN...

Skirmishes over small points ignore the real issues: rising healthcare and pension costs and an unwillingness to levy enough tax to pay for them

A mere one in four adults now believes it ‘wrong’ to be able to buy better healthcare, writes Nicholas Timmins