Ada Maddocks
Obituary: An early woman president at the TUC.
Two keys to stopping HIV
Health officials in Botswana are trying to stop the spread of Aids. But they face two problems: circumcision, which could help, is frowned upon, and many people have gotten used to having multiple sex partners. Craig Timberg reports
Hospital parking ‘a stealth tax on illness’
The NHS may be free at the point of delivery, but patients and their families paid hospital parking charges in England totalling £95m in 2005/06.
Ministers left in dark over NHS deficit, say MPs
Ministers failed to take a grip on the NHS's net £570m deficit in England last year because the Department of Health did not collect enough information to realise the extent of the problem, a cross-party committee of MPs will say today.
Fruit, veg and a trip to the GP as stores are asked to open surgeries
· Areas with fewer doctors to be targeted by scheme· Boots and Tesco among retailers thought suitable
When gold won’t buy quiet
Leader: 'I stuffed their mouths with gold,' said Aneurin Bevan, recalling the only way in which he had been able to silence the shrill protests of the consultants who might otherwise have strangled the NHS at birth.
Patients miss out as NHS cash floods in
Salaries soaked up new funds, reveals damning report.
The nuisance is mobile
James Harkin: With no other decent reason to ban the use of mobile phones, hospitals are reverting to snobbery.
Money to fight obesity raided to bail out hospitals, Tories claim
Tories publish document outlining measures to stop earmarked cash being siphoned off to tackle funding shortfalls in other areas.