Binge drinking over New Year’s Eve could cost NHS £23m, says thinktank

Thinktank proposes that severely intoxicated people should pay the price – £532 – of their short-term treatment

I don’t need a war to fight my cancer. I need empowering as a patient

Mike Marqusee: Using the martial metaphor for something as complex as cancer makes the disease ripe for political and financial exploitation

Now is not the time for health cuts

Rachael Jolley: The NHS spends millions on treating avoidable lifestyle diseases – any cut in public health budgets would be a false economy

NHS missed target on chlamydia screening, says watchdog

National Audit Office report scrutinises failures of £150m campaign to curb spread of sexual disease

What’s the point of the NHS’s midlife MOT?

Regular health checks for over-40s will only help the 'worried well'

Bring in more nurses for newborns, NHS told

One-to-one attention needed for acute cases, say experts following year-long inquiry into neonatal care

The human cost of screening for Down’s

Tom Shakespeare: We must provide better information about Down's syndrome to help inform the traumatic decisions behind the statistics

Women need choice, not caesareans

Belinda Phipps: Figures show the NHS's Maternity Matters programme is failing. Empowered mothers would choose fewer medicalised births

Swine flu cases almost double within a week

Pressure on hospitals but emergency planners have downgraded UK's worst case scenario

Are new hospital shift patterns putting you in danger?

Changes to the shift system for hospital staff could pose a risk to patients, says Joanna Moorhead