Problems with the NHS dental contract may mean patients are overcharged by millions of pounds a year, Tories say.

Here’s how The Times is reporting the story: Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, will set out today why he believes patients should be allowed to pay privately for drugs to “top up” NHS care. The Liberal Democrats will seek to outflank both Labour and the Tories after patients who bought life-extending cancer drugs privately were

Patients who do not want their medical records to be placed on a national electronic database are being coerced by NHS managers to give their consent, the British Medical Association said last night. During trials of the scheme in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent, thousands of patients are being told they cannot opt out unless they make an appointment with "NHS advisers" to explain face to face why t...

The rule banning patients from paying for medicines while continuing to access other NHS services could be scrapped.

NHS gives go-ahead to experimental treatments for hundreds of patients who have failed to respond to conventional cures

Now this is an interesting idea, allowing NHS patients to be able to access their own medical records on-line. I've long thought one of the problems with the NHS is how secretive Doctors and medical care is. Information is almost sacred and you as a patient are for some reason overlooked in the process. To really address what's wrong with the NHS, the way information is shared needs to be looked a...

John Healey's speech to Labour Party Conference. Conference. We've heard powerful testimonies today in defence of our NHS from our panel, and in our debate. Thank you. Today we reject the Tories' plans. We back the founding principles of our NHS. And we dedicate ourselves to winning a Labour government to protect the NHS. It has been a real privilege to work with an outstanding shad...

Ministers are planning to force GPs to improve their performance by posting patients' comments about them on an NHS website, the Guardian can reveal. Ben Bradshaw, the health minister, wants to make it easy for patients in England to rate their family doctor's competence and bedside manner on bulletin boards on the NHS Choices website. Officials have been told to have the appropriate sof...

NHS patients would be able to access their own medical records online under proposals by the Conservatives.

The Conservatives have claimed that NHS dental patients are being overcharged by up to £109m a year because some dentists are playing the system.