Thousands rally to protest against ‘destruction’ of NHS
· Health warning as workers converge on parliament
· Prescott denies claims 20,000 jobs have been lost
From cradle to grave, your files available to a cast of thousands
Millions of patients' details are already being uploaded on to the database that is the world's biggest civilian IT project.
‘A national database is not essential’
What health professionals say about the new NHS database.
Spine-chilling
Leader: There is good cause for alarm in our report today about the way in which medical data is being transferred to electronic records. There is a cause for real doubt about whether medical privacy can continue to be guaranteed.
Murder cases review after expert criticised
· Watchdog raised doubts over former pathologist · Re-examination of nine convictions ordered
The virtues of therapy
Derek Draper: We should grasp this chance to make anxiety and depression a thing of the past for millions.
Hit the young with alcopop tax – minister
Worries about teenage binge drinkers prompt Hewitt to write to Treasury
Tories attack £45bn cost of PFI hospitals
A finance scheme to build new schools and hospitals will cost taxpayers an extra £45bn over the next three decades, it emerged today.