Fetch a doctor!

A&E units are being clogged up by patients with far from urgent health problems. Will renaming the units help cut waiting times? Ed Walker suspects not.

Ready, willing and disabled

Daniel Strother, who broke his back climbing Ben Nevis, hopes to make medical history by qualifying as a doctor - in a wheelchair. But why is the profession so scared of taking on disabled people? Dea Birkett reports.

Bedside stories

When Alan Milburn starts being rude about doctors on the telly, it's hard to see how the NHS is going to survive, writes Michael Foxton.

Intensive carer

That most British of institutions, the Royal College of Nurses, is about to do battle with the Government over nurses' pay, yet their champion is a woman from Kentucky whose reputation is for possessing that most un-British characteristic... straight talking.

The hidden PFI agenda

Felicity Lawrence: The creeping privatisation of health will end up with more charging and inequality.