HEALTH Secretary Nicola Sturgeon was today due to announce a crackdown on health service bureaucracy as she confirmed the SNP would pass on any extra cash for the NHS from nex

Last week, it was announced that the workforce in the National Health Service had increased to 1,368,200 by September 2008, a rise of more than 27 per cent in a decade. This should be of little surprise to anyone, given the fact that we are all living longer and that there is increased pressure on the health service to provide more staff to cope with the higher demand from patients. The critical q...

Welsh Conservatives voice fresh concerns over rise in health service red tape.

An excellent Editorial piece here from the Lancet of 15th November. No further comment is necessary. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is one to be proud of: free care for all at the point of delivery. But a proposal last week by the Department of Health to allow NHS patients in England...

WHEN NHS staff surveys were introduced by Susan Deacon, the then Health Minister, the idea was as a temperature check on the NHS that would identify any issues which deterred people from joining and remaining with the service.

from the Morning Star by Will Stone Union leaders and MPs lashed out today at “disastrous” plans to reform the health service that will tear apart the fabric of the NHS. Six health unions jointly signed a letter condemning the speed and scale of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s NHS reforms which they said risk putting cost before

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley faces calls to come clean on the Government’s funding for the health service, as Labour challenged him with hard proof of a real terms decrease in NHS spending during the course of the Parliament.

Alan Johnson MP, Labour's Health Secretary, has wished the National Health Service a happy sixtieth birthday and paid tribute to the hard work and devotion of NHS staff past and present: "For the last 60 years the National Health Service...

One of Britain's foremost analysts and commentators on our Health Service, Roy Lilley, warned of the disastrous consequences for Surrey's health service if the coalition's proposals go ahead. Lilley a former mayor of Camberley who describes himself as a left leaning Tory was speaking to Politicos Surrey Health's unique non party political discussion group on Friday in a panel i...

The NHS Support Federation's director Paul Evans said: Gordon Brown must accept the right of local people to influence the direction of their health service and to take a different view. Afterall his own constituents in Scotland live under a health system that rejects many of his own market based solutions for the English health service. This