NHS seeks £100m from ‘price fixing’ drug giants
Two companies accused of running ulcer remedy cartel.
One in 10 patients ‘shouldn’t be in hospital’
Managers float bed closures and hi-tech treatments at home in pared back NHS.
Illusions of choice
Leader: Big public service speeches are due next week from both Michael Howard and Tony Blair. A major theme of both will be choice. Here are some issues which we would like both leaders to clarify next week.
Greater choice for patients in Reid’s five year plan
Ministers hope the health secretary's plans for the NHS will give the government momentum and refocus political debate on the domestic agenda after 15 months of dominance by foreign affairs.
Independent inquiry into Gulf war illnesses
An unprecedented independent inquiry into whether more than 5,000 veterans of the first Gulf war became ill as a result of their service is to be announced.