One victim of the 'labour purge' explains why he wanted to vote in Labour's leadership election - and why he'd supported the National Health Action Party, despite being a lifelong Labour voter. Last ...

The working culture in the NHS has come under intense scrutiny in recent years after a series of failings in hospital trusts. Employers in the health service now want to make sure they recruit staff ...

THANKS must go out to all the people who stopped and talked to our volunteers in Hastings and Rye at the NHS Big Weekend. It was great to see so many people supporting the NHS and being prepared to ...

Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has hit back at critics of the government’s reform of the NHS, insisting they were vital to ensuring the service’s core values were preserved. “The changes that we are ...

My brother-in-law recently passed the Life in the UK test, and is now the proud bearer of a blue passport. Joking that he probably now knew more about Britain than I did, he asked me if I could list ...

Labour is to encourage NHS staff and patients to gather information on how coalition policies are affecting front-line care. The party has set up a website - <link ...

As Labour health secretary in 1948, Aneurin Bevan meets the first patient of the NHS in Trafford Aneurin Bevan's first major personal experience of the National Health Service he created in 1948 came ...

Actor Michael Sheen says the core values of the NHS are being undermined. He made his comments on The Andrew Marr Show, saying: "This is beyond party politics. I think that's partly the point. "There ...