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Lansley 'dodging hard decisions' on NHS cuts

06.10.09
Health experts poured cold water over Conservative plans to save NHS money by cutting red tape... more

Thousands in NHS face axe in war on wasteful bureaucracy

05.10.09
Tory party conference: Thousands of employees face axe after Tories promise purge of bureaucracy... more

The week ahead at the Conservative conference

05.10.09
Today: Boris Johnson is guaranteed to boost morale as he kicks the week off. William Hague is drafted in to soothe fury about the Commons expenses scandal... more

Londoners fail to name Conservative cabinet

02.10.09
They are on course to run the country as the next Conservative government. Yet the men and women who form the Tory shadow cabinet are almost unrecognisable to many Londoners. ... more

Boris Johnson a blueprint for next Tory government cuts

10.09.09
Next Tory Government will model its cost-cutting plans on the party’s London councils and Boris Johnson’s mayoralty ... more

Bloggers add to the gaiety of the political scene

04.09.09
“All bloggers are gay”. This magisterial judgment, proffered to me by a fellow Westminster journalist not very long ago, summed up the way the mainstream media used to view the upstart “blogosphere”. ... more

Hospital superbug deaths are down by 29% in first ever fall

19.08.09
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Britons too tired for sex

10.08.09
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Tories 'planning to freeze wages for doctors and nurses'

02.07.09
Political row over public spending switched back to the Tories after shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley declared the NHS cannot afford "inflationary" pay rises for staff... more

Defence cuts 'to leave aircraft carriers without any planes'

23.06.09
Defence chiefs are braced for a cut in their budgets of about 25 per cent over the next year... more

'£500m of hospital funding held back'

11.06.09
New Health Secretary Andy Burnham faced claims that hospital funding is being withheld... more

Brown corners Cameron on Tory spending cuts gaffe

10.06.09
Gordon Brown tore into David Cameron's economic plans after a Tory MP said his party was planning cuts in public spending... more

Senior Tory lets slip plan to cut public spending by 10 per cent

10.06.09
Senior Conservative Andrew Lansley plunged the Tories' economic policy into confusion by saying they were planning serious public spending cuts... more

Inconvenient truth about Cameron's 'green' Tories

14.05.09
It has become David Cameron's inconvenient truth: his party does not agree with him on wind farms... more

Tories in trouble - claim for 25 lightbulbs

11.05.09
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Alan Johnson 'has no news is good news' NHS policy

26.03.09
Health Secretary Alan Johnson was accused of a "no news is good news" policy amid claims that the Government is keeping quiet about the NHS to avoid damaging publicity... more

Limit on doctors' hours 'will hit waiting lists'

12.03.09
A senior surgeon has warned that rules limiting the hours doctors work will mean that efforts to reduce waiting lists will "go out of the window"... more

Alan Johnson urged to 'come clean' over knife attack statistics

06.03.09
Health Secretary Alan Johnson was urged to "come clean" on his role in the spin row over government knife statistics... more

New urgent care centres 'put patient lives at risk'

22.01.09
Health chiefs have been accused of putting patients' lives at risk by introducing new medical centres to take pressure off London's overstretched A&E departments... more

London patients still face mixed-sex wards

09.01.09
Some of London's leading hospitals are still treating patients in mixed-sex wards despite a government crackdown, the Standard can reveal... more

Dentists 'are overcharging their patients £109m a year'

18.12.08
Dentists are overcharging patients by up to £109million a year, it was claimed... more

Early detection key to surviving cancer

10.12.08
Cancer patients face stark differences in survival rates depending on what form of the disease they have, figures reveal... more

Tory apologises after saying 'recession can be good for us'

25.11.08
A top Tory was forced to issue an apology after he claimed that "recession can be good for us"... more

Cycling injuries rise by a quarter

18.11.08
The number of cyclists injured in England has increased by almost a quarter in the past five years, official figures reveal... more

Health

08.10.08
It’s an issue that can cloud the cheering fact that London is home to some of the most brilliant health care specialists in the world, leaders in their fields. ... more

Tories: NHS cash needed by elderly in rich areas

27.08.08
NHS cash should be redirected from poor areas to better-off areas which have more elderly people, Tory shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has said... more

Replace our failing hospitals with private clinics, demands CBI

24.06.08
Failing hospitals should be closed and replaced by privately-run clinics in a radical NHS shake-up, a report claims... more

1,700 surgeries face axe under polyclinics plan

09.06.08
NHS plans for "super-surgeries" could see patients travelling up to four miles to reach their nearest GP... more

Weight loss operations rising fastest in London

27.05.08
The number of Britons having weight-reduction surgery increased by 41 per cent across the country, figures show... more

It's men, not lesbians, who are the problem

14.05.08
If the Tories want to save families, they need to do a lot more than make spiteful, useless gestures against lesbians... more

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