Charities to take on health work
Reid to contract out services to voluntary sector.
Lawyers warned against ‘compensation culture’
'Ambulance-chasing' law firms, which bring 'frivolous' personal injury claims, must behave or face government regulation, the constitutional affairs secretary warned today.
Twenty winks
Annalisa Barbieri: It's neither big nor clever to cut back on sleep.
Private plan ‘may spoil NHS success’
Older people's tsar warns against diverting funds.
Lifestyle MOTs fail the test
According to a leaked white paper, the government is planning to introduce free health checks for everyone. But there is little evidence that they will do any good, argues GP Margaret McCartney.
Worried doctors opt for caesareans
Doctors admit they fear mothers will sue after difficult births, despite 20 per cent fall in legal claims against NHS trusts by patients.
UK Gulf war veterans call for action
A panel commissioned by the US government has concluded there is a 'probable link' between exposure to toxic chemicals and illnesses in many troops who served in the Gulf in 1991.