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Never-ending austerity? More cuts to come after 2015

Austerity is set to run well past next election

The coalition will have to complete its austerity drive with 97% spending cuts and just three per cent tax rises in the two years after 2015, a think-tank has warned.

Ministers to cash in on NHS brand overseas

Children take part in the NHS section of the Olympics opening ceremony

Ministers are planning to cash in on the NHS brand after its Olympics advert by selling its expertise overseas.

David Cameron’s global health policy summit speech in full

David Cameron: 'We’ve always been a leader in medical science'

Here is David Cameron’s, the prime minister, speech on global health policy at Guildhall Palace.

Comment: The politics of the opening ceremony

Ian Dunt on Danny Boyle, the Olympic opening ceremony and the impossibility of defining Britishness.

Danny Boyle’s vision of Britain for the London 2012 opening ceremony featured the NHS, Doreen Lawrence and the Sex Pistols. But its real message was about the nature of freedom.

Cameron brands Aidan Burley ‘idiotic’ for Olympic tweet

Sir Danny Boyle? Since the ceremony there have been widespread calls for the film director to be knighted.

David Cameron hit out at the Tory MP who criticised the Olympic opening ceremony today, branding him “idiotic”.

Doctors demand health secretary Lansley’s resignation

The medical group said they have 'no confidence' in the health secretary

Doctors have passed a motion of no confidence against health secretary Andrew Lansley.

NHS hit by doctors’ industrial action

Doctors are at their workplaces but will not perform non-emergency procedures

Doctors are striking over their pension arrangements today, leaving many patients facing delayed operations and procedures.

Labour claims NHS under Cameron makes them ‘laugh out loud’

Hague: Rationing healthcare based on cost was "totally unacceptable"

William Hague has insisted cutting treatments to save money is “totally unacceptable” in the face of criticism from Harriet Harman in prime minister’s questions.

Politics blamed for drop in NHS satisfaction

Might dissatisfaction with the NHS be purely superficial?

Satisfaction with the NHS dropped sharply in the coalition’s first year in power, figures out today have confirmed, triggering intense debate about what the decline actually means.