Starmer’s Labour government is risking patient safety by shifting burdens instead of solving systemic issues. Though he claims, “I’m not interested in putting ideology before patients,” his plan reflects a Thatcherite push toward a two-tier healthcare system.

In 2023, a government-commissioned review led by former Labour health secretary Patricia Hewitt recommended that ministers “significantly reduce” the number of national NHS targets. Hewitt warned that an “excessive” focus on hitting these could lead to “gaming” of the targets or “even a disastrous neglect of patients themselves”.

Under the plans, private health companies will be handed £2.5 billion to carry out an extra million treatments of NHS patients a year.

This is also what is focused on in the “18 weeks” limit enshrined in the NHS constitution, and the Labour manifesto ... living longer in poorer health, will continue to be the abiding challenge. The NHS cannot be made to work properly without a ...

With the class struggle suppressed and Labour in power, opportunity has been given to the far-right to scapegoat migrants for the deep social grievances of the working class.

Labour badly needs some tangible signs of progress that it’s delivering on its pledge to bring about a decade of national renewal.

As borrowing costs rise, the government has less money to spend on the country's creaking National Health Service, military, emergency services and schools.

Jeremy Corbyn’s criticism of Labour’s NHS plans has reignited debate over the role of private healthcare in the public system

Plaid Cymru has laid out a plan to address huge waiting lists in the NHS in Wales, which have hit record highs. Here, the party's health spokesperson Mabon ap Gwynfor details how they would do it.

The leading editorial in the 9 January 1975 issue of Nursing Times was focused on a dispute between the government and doctors.

The First Minister is taking an increasingly hands on approach to the health brief, with Labour saying Health Secretary Neil Gray has been "sidelined".

He wrote: “The Scottish Government has done a great service ... The Labour administration in London is content to see more children remain in poverty, while the SNP want that number to reduce. This inconvenient truth puts the Labour Party in Scotland ...