Union anger as 400 ambulance staff get notice
The Yorkshire ambulance service sent redundancy notices to 400 NHS staff in a move condemned by unions as 'cruel and disgraceful.'
Patients win right to keep records off NHS computer
The government concedes patients should be allowed a veto on information about their medical history being passed from their GP to a national database.
How patients’ protests forced a rethink on NHS computer records
· The question no one asked: what do you think? · Taskforce seeks to find a form of compromise
Blair and Cameron clash over NHS report
David Cameron seized on the findings of the health select committee and challenged the prime minister over accusations of 'poor central management' of the NHS.
Health minister steps down
The government denied that Lord Warner's departure was connected to the troubled NHS IT project he was overseeing.
It is broke, so fix it
Leader: Along with optimistic plans to move the NHS as a whole into surplus, comes the admission that the financial binds being imposed were "unsustainable" for many individual trusts.
NHS chief admits flawed accounting behind deficits
· Trusts forced into red by 'unsustainable' system · Department cannot afford £600m to repair damage
How we got the figures
The Guardian applied under the Freedom of Information Act, asking the Department of Health to send the financial returns submitted by 507 NHS organisations across England at the end of the first half of the current financial year. The department sent a DVD packed with electronic files showing how the trusts performed between April and September - and what their forecasts were for the year as a whole.