Within milliseconds of the Coalition announcement of the plan to replace NHS Direct with a new non-emergency NHS service, Labour politicians were up in arms. Because this plan from the Coalition obviously bears absolutely no relation to Labour’s plan, as spelt out on page 35 of the party’s 2010 manifesto. A new national 111 telephone

John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, has written to Andrew Lansley, challenging him over the coalition's promises on NHS funding &# public promises made by David Cameron, the Coalition Agreement and Andrew Lansley.

There was some agreement at yesterday's Hansard Society meeting that the Conservatives were still drawing the poison of the Thatcher years in terms of their electoral appeal. No-one doubts that the Coalition has the happy effect of moderating some Conservative positions, and there is the persistent rumour that David Cameron prefers being in coalition to governing alone, when he would be even more ...

Labour today warned David Cameron to tread carefully in his plans to share patient records and NHS data with private companies.

What is becoming clear today is that the Tories cannot keep the promises they are making. Not on tax promises. Not on spending commitments. And not on the NHS either. Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Health Secretary, responding to David Cameron's comments on the NHS today, said: "David Cameron's plans on the NHS are not credible and he cannot be trusted. "Cameron promises no NHS cuts - bu...

David Cameron is "in denial" over the damage the Coalition is inflicting on the NHS through its controversial health reforms, shadow health secretary John Healey is to say.

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...

Government plans to set up a new Quango – the NHS Commissioning Board - has been criticised by Labour Councillors who say they are not convinced of the need for yet another costly NHS reorganisation at a time of when the government is preaching to the public about austerity in public services. Labour say that the public has yet to see the evidence that the Coalition Government has protected ...

David Cameron has pledged to mend our broken society. That's interesting because Margaret Thatcher claimed that "There is no such thing as society". So very clearly David Cameron is taking a different line from Thatcher, and that is no bad thing for the Tories. Margaret Thatcher, for all the good things she did (and I don't doubt she halted what seemed like terminal decline of the econom...

David Cameron has pledged to mend our broken society. That's interesting because Margaret Thatcher claimed that "There is no such thing as society". So very clearly David Cameron is taking a different line from Thatcher, and that is no bad thing for the Tories. Margaret Thatcher, for all the good things she did (and I don't doubt she halted what seemed like terminal decline of the econom...