All Andy Burnham articles – Page 11
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NewsExclusive: Circle deal means Hinchingbrooke needs over £70m to clear debts
The deal struck between Hinchingbrooke Health Care Trust and its private sector operator means the trust needs surpluses of at least £70m over the next decade to pay off its £40m debts.
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NewsLabour proposes free social care for terminally ill
Labour has proposed providing free social care to patients with a terminal illness and ending means testing, the party announced yesterday.
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NewsLatest waiting times 'embarrassing' for government - Labour
The government’s own monthly waiting times statistics showed patients are “paying the price” for the coalition’s NHS shake-up, Labour has claimed.
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CommentMichael White: abortion row gives a glimpse of politically disfiguring culture wars
Partisans are standing firm and playing politics.
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NewsWinston backs Labour's NHS campaign
Fertility expert Lord Winston has thrown his weight behind Labour’s NHS-focused campaign in the forthcoming local elections.
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NewsBurnham attacks NHS reform risks
The government has “knowingly taken major risks with the National Health Service” and “ignored warnings from civil servants” in pushing through its controversial health reforms, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has claimed.
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CommentMichael White: is handy Andy Burnham playing the long game?
Michael White’s health politics column.
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NewsLabour forces emergency Health Bill debate
Labour has mounted a last-ditch bid to keep the government’s controversial NHS reforms off the statute book after the legislation cleared the House of Lords.
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CommentMichael White: bill-bashing Lib Dems may take their own hits in the polls
Michael White’s politics column.
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NewsRebel Lib Dem reforms revolt defeated
The government has seen off a rebel Liberal Democrat bid to halt the controversial health reforms.
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NewsTwo thousand campaigners rally against Health Bill
Over 2,000 NHS staff and campaigners heard union leaders, clinicians and managers denounce the Health Bill at a rally against the government’s planned reforms in Westminster last night.
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NewsOpponents to rally in Westminster over Health Bill
Opponents of the government’s controversial health reforms will today warn ministers that the changes represent the “biggest threat” the NHS has ever seen.
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NewsLabour bemoans 'cosmetic' Lib Dem bill changes
Proposed Liberal Democrat amendments to the government’s troubled health reforms have been dismiseed by Labour as “cosmetic” changes designed to help Nick Clegg face down unrest within his party.
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News'Drop the bill' online petition hits 100,000 signatures
More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition urging the government to abandon the Health and Social Care Bill.
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NewsGovernment defeated in Lords Health Bill vote
The government yesterday lost the first vote in its Health Bill’s latest hearing in Parliament, just hours after the prime minister had passionately reiterated the case for reform.
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NewsReform cuts costing 6,000 nursing posts, Labour warns
Money earmarked for the costs of reorganising the NHS could pay to prevent the loss of 6,000 nursing jobs, Labour claims.
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CommentMichael White: will Lansley's Healh Bill survive the 'big push'?
Do you remember the Battle of the Bulge? No, nor do I. It was the last German counter-offensive on the western front in World War II, a thrust through the Ardennes at Christmas 1944 that hoped to push British and American armies back into the Channel.
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NewsLabour: NHS patients will face 'worse deal'
NHS patients will get a “much worse deal” if the government’s health service reforms see NHS hospitals free to earn up to half of their income from private work, Labour has warned.
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NewsLabour calls on Lib Dems peers to oppose bill
The coalition government is allowing NHS hospitals to devote half their beds, appointments and car park spaces to private patients, Labour has claimed.
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NewsBurnham urges medical colleges to demand bill is dropped
Representatives from the main royal medical colleges have met shadow health secretary Andy Burnham to discuss the possibility of a issuing a joint call for the Health Bill to be dropped.