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Milburn's challenge to Labour on NHS reform

Milburn's challenge to Labour on NHS reform

Former health secretary argues that Labour should take up the mantle of radical reform.

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Same old Tories? The public turns against NHS reform

Same old Tories? The public turns against NHS reform

The health bill could spell serious trouble for the Conservatives, as a poll shows declining support.

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Watch: Lansley ambushed by protesters

Watch: Lansley ambushed by protesters

Female protester tells Lansley: "I've had enough of you!"

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David Cameron and the uninvited doctors: that No. 10 guestlist in full

David Cameron and the uninvited doctors: that No. 10 guestlist in full

Groups that have called for NHS reforms to be scrapped are excluded from special summit on the health bill.

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Labour: NHS to be a "defining issue" at the next election

Ed Miliband turns his attention to the coalition's disastrous health bill.

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Chart of the day: the biggest employers in the world

Chart of the day: the biggest employers in the world

Where does the NHS rank?

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ConservativeHome calls for health bill to be scrapped

ConservativeHome calls for health bill to be scrapped

Three Tory cabinet ministers "almost instructed" influential website to come out against NHS reform.

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Lansley fights another day as Cameron backs NHS reform

Lansley fights another day as Cameron backs NHS reform

The PM moves to squash speculation about the Health Secretary's future as the Lords prepare to debate the bill.

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Will Lansley be

Will Lansley be "taken out and shot"?

Speculation about the Health Secretary's future continues to grow.

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Witney GP:

Witney GP: "Nobody supports the NHS changes"

Senior GP in David Cameron's own constituency tells New Statesman "things are going to fail, hospitals will close".

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More in NHS

Lansley's woes continue to grow

NHS reforms an "unholy mess," say leading healthcare journals in joint editorial.

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Leader: Now is Mr Cameron’s chance to halt the NHS sell-off

The health service must not be transformed into a market free-for-all.

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The NHS is toxic for the Tories and they know it

An increasing number of Conservative MPs are starting to think the unloved health reforms ought somehow to be killed.

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The pressure rises on Andrew Lansley

The Health Secretary failed to rebut the charge that his reforms are "a disruption and a distraction".

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NHS hospitals could increase their private services 24-fold

The latest amendment to the NHS bill could see foundation hospitals earning half their income from private patients.

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Coming to a hospital near you: Andrew Lansley TV

Patients must watch loop of Health Secretary unless they register with £5-a day TV system.

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Targets. They hurt, but (sometimes) they work

A u-turn on NHS waiting times shows the Conservatives have realised how hard it is getting things done in government

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Lansley's magic trick with NHS waiting times

Whatever we may like to tell ourselves, NHS care is rationed by the amount of money we're willing to pour into the system.

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Competition über alles

The tragedy of the coalition’s health reforms is that they contained a few good ideas. But the relentless belief in the supremacy of the market has left doctors disheartened, writes a GP who has worked in the NHS for 20 years

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Lansley ambushed

Watch: Lansley ambushed by protesters

Iran and the bomb

Hans Blix: How do we stop Iran getting the bomb?

Tax cutter?

Balls heightens the pressure on Osborne to cut taxes

Gove's time bomb

Gove’s stealthy school reforms could become as toxic as the NHS bill

On globalisation

Say no to protectionism

Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference
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