Firms to fit hearing aids for NHS
The government will today accelerate a £125m programme to provide deaf people with free digital hearing aids by handing over part of the work from the NHS to the private sector.
No 10 orders flabby Britain to get fit
Blair plan linked to bid for Olympics.
Return of the nanny
David Walker: The chancellor can perform a great service to the nation's health by redirecting spending from expensive hospital care to lifestyle issues.
Our disability is political
Andy Rickell: In Birmingham this weekend, disabled people will at last be speaking up for themselves.
The patient is dying
George Monbiot: The fate of an eye hospital in Oxford is symptomatic of the stealthy privatisation of the NHS.
Elderly ‘betrayed’ over care terms
The government was accused last night by the royal commission on long term care for the elderly of 'betraying' millions of older people.
Whitehall played down wartime scurvy reports
Doctors blamed food rationing for illness.
TV ads blamed for rise in child obesity
The government's food standards watchdog yesterday published the first hard evidence blaming television advertising for the excessive consumption of junk food causing an increase of obesity among young people, reportw John Carvel.