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West London health bosses face calls to resign after regulators rejected their blueprint for cuts last month

The government announced plans for a full statutory inquiry into the contaminated blood scandal. But it failed to announce a chair for the inquiry.

Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government had a deliberate policy of refusing to accept any responsibility for allowing contaminated blood to be given to haemophiliacs.

Tory health minister Philip Dunne waded in behind a dangerous plan to deal with the shortage of hospital beds on Monday.

New up-front identity checks in the NHS that came into force on Monday are discriminatory and dangerous

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The collapse of a private ambulance firm in the Home Counties last week, triggering chaos for the NHS, could be a harbinger of a broader crisis.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt tried to con health workers by claiming he had scrapped the Tories’ 1 percent pay cap.

Public services are at breaking point after seven years of Tory austerity.

Around 200 health campaigners marched to defend health services at Ealing Hospital last Saturday.

Around 500 victims of the contaminated blood scandal will be able to sue the government for damages, a court ruled last week.

Nurses and their supporters were set to hold a #ScraptheCap protest in London’s Parliament Square this Wednesday.