The exorbitant cost of PFI is now being cruelly exposed
Allyson Pollock: The huge deficits run up by NHS trusts are part of a wider market-induced healthcare crisis: we must have a full-scale review.
High court to rule on parental consent for abortions
· Mother wants right to confidentiality abolished· Change could stop young people seeking advice
GPs paid to send sick back to work
Doctors to work with employment advisers to help the long-term ill move off state benefits.
In Iraq, life expectancy is 67. Minutes from Glasgow city centre, it’s 54
In deprived inner city area of Calton, the chance of surviving to old age is lowest in UK.
Moving to a more open system
Leader: Slowly but surely Britain is moving to a more rational position on a patient's right to die.
US health giant to run GP practices as Hewitt looks for competition
· Minister says poorest areas get worse services · Pilot schemes to help primary care trusts
NHS reforms badly judged, say MPs
Patricia Hewitt's plans to save £250m on NHS administration are ill-judged and a false economy, the Commons' health select committee says today in a unanimous report.
Gym’ll fix it
Emma Brockes: What exactly did you do for Cherie? Carole Caplin: There were some quite big changes. You can only try to help them develop an eye. You try to neaten up and tidy up.
There is life at the end of the bottle
Has Charles Kennedy's 'problem with drink' destroyed his political career? Not necessarily, says recovered alcoholic John Sutherland If he beats the booze, he can come back all the stronger.