Ben Bradshaw There was widespread relief in the NHS today when it was announced that Ben Bradshaw has given up his health portfolio to become Commissar for Kulture. Bradshaw was second only to Patricia Hewitt in terms of the hatred he engendered amongst those of us who work in the NHS. He was unsympathetic. He did not listen. He was consistently economic with the truth.  The Guardian reports t...

Ben Bradshaw seemed to get a little confused earlier on in Health questions. He started a speech saying the Government didn't "agree with the Conservatives" that recession was good for people's health - I must've missed that particular Tory proposal. But he then went on to say: "We know from experience both in this country and abroad, with issues like mental health, more men go to s...

The British government will consider regulating the food industry if a three-year health lifestyle campaign fails to reduce obesity levels in England, Health Minister Ben Bradshaw said on Friday.

Oops. Health minister Ben Bradshaw has been forced to issue a written statement apologising to Downing Street aide Annette Craze for inexplicably naming and shaming her on a list of NHS debtors. Back in February, in response to a written question from Andrew Lansley, Bradshaw produced a list of individuals and organisations who owed small sums to the NHS, and whose debts had been written off in th...

Ben Bradshaw MP, Labour's Health Minister, has welcomed news that the Labour Government has achieved its target of later evening and weekend opening hours in 50 per cent of England's GP surgeries three months ahead of schedule, saying: "This is a landmark day for patients. Labour's reforms are creating a fairer NHS, one in which everyone can see a doctor when they need to and when t...

Looks like Ed Balls isn't the only one who's trying out Brownies based on Tory spending commitments at the moment.  Health Minister Ben Bradshaw is doing his best to spread the idea that the Tories would cut health spending, despite Cameron's commitment to "protect" real terms increases in the health budget.  He tried to push the Brownie in a ...

Ben Bradshaw, Labour's Health Minister, said today on the Tories' attempts to stop more evening and weekend GP opening hours and polyclinics: "David Cameron's Tory Party haven't learnt the lessons of their last health service blunder. Once again, their claims...

The NHS Information Centre for health and social care - Annual survey on patients` written complaints about the services or treatment they got from the NHS.

NHS patients will be allowed to delete electronic summaries of their treatment records from a new national medical database, the Guardian has learned. The decision represents a significant concession in data protection policy following talks between health service officials and the Information Commissioners' Office (ICO). Until recently the Department of Health had resisted pressure from scep...

The privacy of millions of NHS patients will be critically undermined by a government plan to let medical researchers have access to personal files, the health information watchdog told the Guardian last night. The prime minister and Department of Health want to give Britain's research institutes an advantage against overseas competitors by opening up more than 50m records, to identify patien...