David Cameron and Ed Miliband drove each other into the ground over the NHS this lunchtime, in a gruelling Commons exchange.
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.
Health secretary Andrew Lansley is to address angry nurses frustrated by cutbacks to community care later this morning.
The matron will once again be a key feature of British hospital wards under new plans being drawn up by the government, the prime minister will announce today.
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