A Channel 4 News investigation reveals that under the reforms of the NHS, GPs could end up making decisions based […]
The extraordinary announcement that GPs may no longer be able to sign their patients off work for periods longer than […]
URGENT – REQUIRING IMMEDIATE ACTION – PLEASE SIGN THIS LETTER AND CIRCULATE – ALL SIGNATURES TO BE IN BY 5 […]
Currently, it works like this. If you are ill and unable to work, you sign yourself off work for the […]

Uproar as Circle Health confirms in document that critics' unease about patients is justified

Report highlights how some patients were denied pain relief by nurses and were sometimes left without food and water

Firm receives £250,000 a year from government while also providing paid-for advice to GPs affected by changes

Politically sensitive draft GMC guidance says doctors should enourage patients to stay in or return to work
Statistics analysed by the House of Commons Library show health service spending fell in real terms in the coalition’s first […]
We need to remind ourselves why we entered this profession, Dr Clare Gerada tells the Royal College of GPs in […]
Commons Health Committee inquiry into Social Care The House of Commons Health Committee has issued an invitation to submit written […]
Welfare Reform Bill committee stage: day two – 07 October 2011 The House of Lords debated the Welfare Reform Bill, which had its […]
I was about 17 when the NHS was founded, and I remember life in Britain before it. I came from a […]
The BMA today (Thursday 6 October 2011) renewed its call for the Health and Social Care Bill in England to […]

York GPs offer to carry out minor surgical procedures for a fee in unprecedented step for NHS care
Exclusive GPs are set to be required to encourage patients to go back to work as part of their responsibilities to […]

Experts including 40 directors of public health say government's health and social care bill will cause 'irreparable harm'
The rising cost of paying for hospitals built through the Private Finance Initiative is jeopardising the finances of some NHS […]
THE axing of mental health inpatient services and changes in unemployment benefit will create the ‘perfect storm’ for disabled people […]

Party will not be allowed to consider or vote on any specific motion regarding the bill due before the Lords later this autumn
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