Plans to close swathes of Yorkshire hospital services will 'improve care', say local NHS bosses. Campaigners are unconvinced. In the first of a four-part series Jenny Shepherd asks who - and what - is really behind similar claims being made across the country.
New NHS boss Simon Stevens may support smaller District General Hospitals - but do the regulators march to the same tune?
Yesterday Miliband pledged a GP appointment for all within 48 hours, today Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham visits inner-city GP practices facing the axe.
In a Daily Mail campaign the Prime Minister deploys his personal tragedy and patronises health care workers as 'angels in aprons'. Misleading rhetoric provides cover for Cameron's legislative demolition of the NHS.
Mental health services are amongst the hardest hit by cuts and privatisation. A new Charter suggests how people can build alliances and fight back.
The hospital closure clause returns for its final stages in the Lords on 7 May. Lord Phil Hunt writes here about the safeguards he is trying to introduce by amendment.
Four out of five hospitals are short of midwives, a new investigation has found. Funding cuts mean the situation is "getting worse, not better", according to midwife leaders.
The UK already has fewer hospital beds than most of Europe, so why do 'think tanks' suggest we should close more? John Lister finds a complex situation but sees other agendas behind their proposals to shift care to 'specialist centres' or 'in the community'.
A seven-week occupation of a Cambridge NHS mental health clinic in Britain threatened with closure is having more success than past campaigning - is this the way forward?
David Cameron claimed last week that the Welsh border was "the dividing line between life and death". A new Nuffield Trust report shows such rhetoric is dishonest.
Whilst understaffed wards and surgeries turn to well-connected private sector agencies to fill the gaps created by Cameron's health 'reforms', the NHS's own in-house recruitment agency is to be sold off, it has emerged.
Increasingly commercialised NHS data collection is being inappropriately used in ways that could jeopardise hospitals' futures. Is it any wonder staff might feel under pressure to skew the stats?
