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Jeremy Hunt accused of politicising hospital deaths

Jeremy Hunt was accused of misleading the public about hospital deaths in a bid to ruin Labour’s reputation on the NHS today.

NHS death toll: Ten times worse than you thought

NHS' worst trusts saw 13,000 unnecessary deaths in seven years from 2005 - report

Up to 13,000 NHS patients could have died unnecessarily at England’s worst trusts since 2005, according to an explosive report out this week.

Bordering on the absurd: GPs to become immigration officers in health tourism clampdown

Is that a non-UK citizen's heartbeat I hear?

Ministers face renewed claims that GP surgeries are being turned into border posts today, as the coalition unveils details of its plans to charge overseas visitors £200 to use the NHS.

Comment: How our medical rules cost a teenage girl her life

Georgiana Keate: 'We have to hope rules, restrictions and regulations are put there to protect us. Yet if Chloë were your daughter, you would no longer believe that to be true.'

Chloë Drury died one month after her 18th birthday, having been denied a new treatment for her bone cancer. This is her story.

Morecambe Bay cover-up: Belated denial from CQC deputy

Furness General Hospital, where 16 babies died unnecessarily between 2002 and 2011

Allegations of a cover-up at the Care Quality Commission have finally prompted a denial from the watchdog’s former deputy chief executive.

Ministers embroiled in health watchdog cover-up scandal

Now attention is on ministerial involvement

Ministers on both sides of the political divide are becoming increasingly implicated in the cover-ups at the NHS’ watchdog this weekend, as more details of the Care Quality Commission’s efforts to quash dissent continue to emerge.

Named and shamed: Staff who covered up hospital report revealed

Health bosses accused of covering up failures at a hospital which led to the deaths of 16 babies were named today, after a protracted battle over data protection rules.

Comment: Andy Burnham’s responsibility for the secrecy of the NHS

David Morris: 'The Morecambe Bay cover-up has sent shock waves through our community'

A culture of secrecy kept the truth from coming out about failures at the Universities of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust and Andy Burnham needs to take some responsibility for it.

Comment: We have to tell the truth about women GPs

Anne McIntosh, MP Thirsk Malton and Filey, NHS, female doctors, motherhood, 111 telephone service, GPs

My comments on female GPs were treated as controversial, but medical experts recognise that they pose a significant organisational risk to the proper running of the NHS, said Anne McIntosh who has first hand experience with the lag time surrounding the 111 telephone system.