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Failing hospitals test gets go-ahead
Hospitals are to be ranked by how many patients are happy for their friends and family to receive the same care they do.
Lansley faces wrath of the nurses
Miliband urges on nurses against NHS reforms
Alcohol strategy: Hospitals could shut down pubs
Miliband urges on nurses against NHS reforms
Ed Miliband is to praise nurses as the "first line in the defence of the NHS" when he encourages them to continue resisting the coalition's reforms later.
Lansley faces wrath of the nurses
Health secretary Andrew Lansley is to address angry nurses frustrated by cutbacks to community care later this morning.
Smokers groups start 'coalition of the sane'
Groups supporting the rights of people to smoke have started a 'coalition of the sane', as they try to prevent the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes.
Abortion inspectors bite back at Lansley
Spot checks on abortion clinics ordered by health secretary Andrew Lansley are at the centre of a growing political row.
Entrenching 'choice' in law: Cameron stands by private sector vision
'New providers' will be able to break through the "state monopoly" across Britain's public services, David Cameron has insisted.
Defective breast implants 'handled poorly'
Huge questions remain over the safe replacement of defective breast implants, MPs have warned.
Leaked risk register reveals full scale of threat to NHS
The health service could face higher costs, struggle with emergencies and be undermined by a rushed implementation of reforms, the NHS risk register has warned.
Govt pledges £66 million for dementia research
The prime minister is today announcing his intention to make the UK a world leader in research for dementia treatment.
Doctors pre-emptively approving abortions, says govt
Doctors in abortion clinics have been signing consent forms before the woman had been seen, the government claimed today.
Alcohol strategy: Hospitals could shut down pubs
Local hospitals where A&Es are full of drinkers could get powers to spark reviews of pub and club licences, under new plans being formulated by the government.
NHS reforms to become law
Campaigners against NHS reform appeared to have lost their campaign last night, after the health and social care bill passed its final legislative hurdles.
'We gather to dismantle the NHS'
Triumphant ministers are presiding over the final legislative stages of the health and social care bill - a process the opposition claims represents the last rites of the NHS.
Ministers eye NHS reform finish line
Hugely unpopular NHS reforms are set to clear the Commons for good on Wednesday, despite desperate last-gasp efforts to stall the health and social care bill.
Revenge: Doctors vow electoral punishment for NHS reform
Vulnerable Tory and Liberal Democrat seats will be targeted by GPs at the next election in a bid to punish those who helped the NHS reforms on to the statute book.
'Constant battles' needed for decent home care
A good home care service is often only provided after complaints from relatives, according to consumer organisation Which?
Harman to Clegg: 'Even now, you can stop NHS reform'
Harriet Harman appealed to Nick Clegg to stop the NHS reform bill today, despite plans for it to become law next week.
Labour woos rebellious Lib Dems during dramatic NHS debate
Andy Burnham has used a dramatic and bad-tempered Commons debate to "develop an agreement" between Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs over the coalition's NHS reforms.
NHS reforms: GPs will do admin 'four days a week'
GPs might be left with only one day a week to look after patients if NHS reforms become law, according to research released today.
White flag: Doctors' leaders signal truce over NHS reform
One of the leading doctors' groups fighting the government's NHS reforms has sought peace with Downing Street, in a sign that the battle against the bill may already be lost.
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