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The NHS reforms blog

Live coverage of the government's controversial changes to the NHS
  • Nurses will be demoralised over 'pitiful' 1% NHS pay rise, says union – video

    Government accused of dereliction of duty over pay recommendation for more than a million staff

  • Andrew Lansley, David Cameron

    NHS reforms live blog - Tuesday 28 February

    Rolling coverage as political intrigue over government's NHS plans continues ahead of Lords debate tomorrow on controversial plans to extend competition

  • health bill service forced compete

    Health reforms highlight Lib Dems fall from grace across Northern England

    Are we seeing a second electoral disaster on the scale of reaction to the broken promise on student tuition fees?

  • nhs bans operations surgeon warns

    Have your say on our NHS reforms coverage

    What is next on the agenda for the NHS reforms and what should we be looking at?

  • Great Ormond Street Hospital

    In defence of my live NHS blog

    Rowenna Davis

    Rowenna Davis: Writing about an operation on a baby's heart as it happened allowed us to respond to what readers want to know

  • Ed Miliband

    Politics Weekly podcast: Has the welfare fightback begun?

    Ed Miliband takes on David Cameron over benefit cuts. And could NHS chaos give rise to catastrophe for the coalition?

  • David Cameron and NHS staff in Ealing

    Guardian Focus Podcast: How will the changes to budget affect the NHS?

    Hugh Muir talks to health experts to find out how the changes to the way the NHS is financed will affect its service and where the necessary savings can be made

  • Growing numbers of patients aged 65 and over are having NHS heart surgery

    Abuse in the NHS and social care: tell us your stories

    Witnessed a risk, malpractice or wrongdoing in the NHS or in social care which adversely affects patients, the public or the organisation itself? Then help us chart those experiences below

  • Professor Steve Field

    Steve Field public Q&A on NHS reforms - audio

  • Steve Field

    NHS reforms live blog - featuring David Cameron and Steve Field

  • NHS

    NHS reforms debate: Will greater competition improve the health service?

    Karen Jennings from Unison and Dr Jennifer Dixon of the Nuffield Trust discuss the plans to increase competition and devolve power in the National Health Service in England

  • Mental health problems can be a stigma

    NHS reforms blog - mental health special

    NHS reforms will have huge implications for people with mental health issues. We'll be devoting Tuesday's blog to the subject. Find out more …

  • Letter from GP encouraging colleagues to back government NHS reforms

  • Andrew Lansley

    NHS reforms: who are the key players?

  • NHS composite

    NHS reforms: what are the key issues?

    The government's proposed health reforms have proven so controversial that the health minister has announced a two-month 'pause' in the health bill to review concerns. According to NHS Future Forum, the body set up to lead the so-called 'listening exercise', there are four key themes to the reforms that they will be reviewing. We decode them here

  • Will GPs have to swap stethoscopes for calculators?

    NHS reforms: glossary of key terms

    Rowenna Davis explains the jargon used in the debate over the coalition's controversial plans for the NHS

  • Nick Clegg at the Liberal Democrats' spring conference

    Letter from Kailash Chand and JS Bamrah to Liberal Democrat activists

    GP Kailash Chand and JS Bamrah of the BMA's North Western Regional Council have written to hundreds of Lib Dem activists in an effort to derail the coalition's plans for the health bill
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