BMA: NHS reforms are a big risk

The BMA’s chairman of council, Dr Hamish Meldrum, issues his organisation’s latest call for the government to abandon its NHS reforms:

Burnham: Doctors will roll their eyes

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham comments on proposals to include patient surveys in the NHS’ ‘outcomes framework’:

NHS patients to be offered unlicensed drug gamble

NHS patients could be given access to drugs which have not been fully developed under plans being unveiled by the government today.

Comment: Where next for NHS reform?

The emphasis on choice and competition must not be diluted in a clamour for a quieter life.

Waiting time rule change comes to aid of ‘lost’ NHS patients

NHS hospitals which let patients slip through the 18-week waiting time net are to be tackled by new measures to be unveiled later.

Hospitals shamed by patient horror stories

English hospitals have been harshly criticised for poor levels of care by a report released today.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: Lansley obesity plan is peanuts

Professor Terence Stephenson, president of the RCPCH responds to health secretary’s plans to tackle obesity by reducing national calorific intake by five billion calories a day:

Peers urged to reject NHS reforms

The leading doctors’ organisation has repeated its call for the coalition to abandon its NHS reforms.

‘Hospital beds must be cut’ to meet efficiency savings

The NHS will have to “radically reorient” itself away from hospital-based treatment to avoid sleepwalking into a “financial crisis”, the head of the NHS Confederation has warned.

Business group wants end to NHS ringfence

Protected NHS and aid spending may have to face cuts if the economy does not recover by next spring, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has said.