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 ...

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, has today launched Labour's Health Manifesto, Your Personal NHS Guarantee. Labour outlines our plan for a better NHS. An NHS that is on the side of the patient, not the system. Today, while Labour campaigns on public services, the Tory risk on public services is becoming more and more clear – removing guarantees in the NHS, ch...

Labour warn the NHS would return to "the bad old days" under a Tory government as the parties argue over the future of the health service.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley faces calls to come clean on the Government's funding for the health service, as Labour challenged him with hard proof of a real terms decrease in NHS spending during the course of the Parliament. John Healey MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary said: "Updated inflation forecasts in last week's Office of Budget Responsibility report show that for the ...

Plymouth Labour has challenged the new company running NHS services in Plymouth to restore the NHS brand to their communications following the scrapping of NHS Plymouth. Plymouth Community Healthcare has been established as a company limited by guarantee and is now delivering services that were previously delivered by NHS Plymouth. The transfer of staff and services to the new company happened at ...

New Labour is now known as old Tory. Labour closed post offices. Labour closed police stations. Labour killed our young service men and women in an illegal war with Iraq. Labour gave us more rich people. Labour created more poverty in Wales. Labour oversaw the loss of our manufacturing industry because of weak union laws. Labour is known as the sleaziest and corrupt government in Europe. Labour cr...

Labour could deploy filibustering tactics in an effort to derail the government's contentious reforms of the National Health Service

John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, today welcomed news that the Labour Government has allocated millions of pounds more funding for GP surgeries, health centres, and other frontline services in Southampton's Primary Care Trust. David Cameron's do-nothing Tory Party has refused to match Labour's NHS investment, and would scrap Labour's deal with GPs for extended even...

Charlotte Mackenzie, the Labour candidate for Falmouth and Truro, commented this morning on the published corporate assessment report from the Audit Commission on Cornwall's fire services. She said: "Sadly, this report confirms what local people fear. Fire services in Cornwall have deteriorated under Liberal Democrat leadership of council services since 2005. Fire services are now rated as &#...

Immigration has increased four-fold in the last decade, under the Labour government, from 50,000 to approximately 200,000, straining the resources of the NHS (National health Service), schools, housing, and other public services. There has been much grumbling by the public and the press alike, but little action by the politicians. Now, a coalition headed by former Labour Minister Frank Field, and ...