Almost everyone from lawyers and healthcare experts to trade unions is telling government their proposals to charge migrants for healthcare are flawed - but will they listen?
If the government does not have evidence of a significant problem with “health tourism”, why is it proposing setting up an expensive and cumbersome system to address it?
As NHS funding cuts bite, are NHS hospitals muddying the waters between NHS and private patients?
NHS and public sector trade unionists speak out in defence of universal health care.
Baroness Shirley Williams - who claimed to have protected the principle of an NHS 'free at the point of need' - today suggested we should consider GP charges and ending free prescriptions for pensioners.
The Government’s plans to further limit migrant access to NHS services as part of the forthcoming Immigration Bill are a striking example of how quickly the terms of public debate can change on an issue - and how rapidly such a shift can undermine years of evidence-based policy-making.
As part of our new "Reclaiming the NHS" series, a practice nurse and 38 Degrees member from Luton who wishes to remain anonymous has come forward to reveal dangerous decision-making by health bosses in her area.
An explanation of what David Owen's new bill is trying to achieve and why it is needed
More than one in four Conservative peers - 62 out of the total of 216 - and many other members of the House of Lords have a direct financial interest in the radical re-shaping of the NHS that is perilously close to being enacted. These peers have been able to vote on the crucial divisions that wil
