accident and emergency Articles

Our National Health Service is not short of challenges but there is a danger that by looking for short term fixes, more radical approaches that could deliver real benefits are ignored. The government’s approach to community pharmacy is a case in point. It is not just...

Social care is in crisis Frail older people in hospital beds is the image which stays with me more than any other from my first four months as Labour’s shadow secretary of state for health. I have visited numerous hospitals up and down the country, and I have lost...

Well, well well, the Tories are certainly rattled on the NHS. That’s what it looked like at prime minister’s questions today as Cameron shouted at Miliband. Labour of course ran the NHS as its third policy pledge yesterday and it is turning into the top issue with...

Read Nye Bevan’s 60 years old NHS classic In Place Of Fear and you will find no mention of the role of the state in removing hair crimpers; just one of many Christmas ills that apparently clogged up A&E departments. Bevan’s discussion of a two-tier system, the...