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.

Health service managers warned of an "Armageddon scenario" as they draw up secret plans for NHS hospital cuts.

The NHS is planning to sell a hospital built using public donations in memory of soldiers killed in the First World War.

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

Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust have paid out a secret amount of your money for a misdiagnosis by a doctor whose name is secret, even though a secret report said she had been working within her professional guidelines and no fault had been attached to her. Had she done this before? Has she done it since? That's a secret.

Janet Street-Porter: We now have a two-tier NHS in the UK, after the Scottish Parliament voted to abolish hospital parking charges. In spite of the charges being one of the biggest causes of public dissatisfaction, the English branch of the NHS says it has no plans to follow its Scottish counterparts, which also abolished prescription charges. When

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

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...

Mortality rates from every NHS hospital to be made available to the public after breakdown of standards at Mid Staffordshire trust Death rates of every NHS hospital in England will be published on a government website, ministers said today after admitting a "lamentable" breakdown of standards at a foundation trust in the Midlands. Alan Johnson, the health secretary, said patients will gain access ...

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...