The BBC reports: A groundbreaking £1bn, 10-year deal for a private firm to run a struggling NHS hospital has been confirmed. Circle is to take over Cambridgeshire’s Hinchingbrooke Hospital in February – although it will stay in the NHS. The deal will see Circle assume the financial risks of making the hospital more efficient and

Lord Mandelson is in hospital for prostate surgery today. Is he using the NHS or has he gone private, I wonder? I've long believed that it is selfish and immoral for those of us who can afford private healthcare to be allowed to use the NHS, thus clogging up GPs' surgeries and hospital waiting lists for those with no choice but to rely on the NHS. The law should allow for those of us who...

The private sector is to be invited for the first time to run a big NHS hospital – including its accident and emergency and maternity services – under plans backed by the Department of Health and the Treasury

Serious concerns have been raised over Birmingham children's hospital NHS foundation trust (BCH), just days after a damning report over Stafford hospital.

The Royal United Hospital Bath, NHS Trust which provides health-care to a local population of approximately 500,000 people, has announced a 1-year extension to their 17-year strategic agreement with IBM to manage its Hospital Information System.

The Telegraph has an extremely worrying article about NHS hospital cleanliness as it is today. Now, I happen to think that this is a little over-the-top, but it does point up a number of serious issues within NHS hospitals throughout the nation. My personal concern at this time stems from the recent disclosure that a good friend of mine has to go into hospital later this month. This person has

Tens of thousands of NHS workers would be sacked, hospital units closed and patients denied treatments under secret plans for £20?billion of health cuts.

A decision on who will run the first NHS hospital to be franchised out to the private sector will be announced on Thursday in what will be a historic moment for the NHS

As regular readers will know, I had an op last week. I was able to observe a telling - and worrying - attitude to cleanliness in the NHS. My op was performed at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Although there is a private wing, my procedure took place in an NHS theatre. As my wife and I waited to go through, we saw any number of nurses come out into the public area, either to go about their b...

The founding principle of the NHS was that it would offer free-at-the-point-of-delivery healthcare. Surely this should apply whether you go to hospital as a patient, as a visitor or a member of staff. It's simply not fair to expect patients or visitors to have to pay when they come to hospital, when they may be suffering personal anxiety, stress or grief. For this reason I welcome yesterday&#...