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

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

Government spending on central bureaucracy in the health service has more than doubled in five years research has found.

The Conservatives say they would save the NHS money by scrapping plans for a central database of patient records.

The Conservatives say they would save the NHS money by ending plans for a central database of patient records.

As a key stream in the Department of Health's communications and delivery strategy, the NHS Choices digital information service (www.nhs.uk) is the "front-door" for communicating with citizens and stakeholders in healthcare, health improvement and social care, the public and the media.

Questions mount about cost of Cameron's wasteful re-organisation. Labour have today published stark new figures revealing yet further evidence of the full cost of the Government's dangerous NHS re-organisation. The new NHS bureaucracy created by David Cameron's Health Bill is paying GPs twice. As GPs take on new roles as part of NHS commissioning boards, they are paid to attend boar...

Patients and front-line staff will see little immediate difference as the health service reforms come in – other than the NHS getting better, says Andrew Lansley

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...

The biggest reform to the NHS since its inception since 1948. A move away from bureaucracy towards a proper internal market. GPs commissioning. A revolution, taking on the vested interests. Yes, there was so much to savour in the NHS Plan of 2000 - enough, Alan Milburn would later joke, that he kept re-announcing its policies for the next three years and getting headlines. Well, the Tories can pla...