​Press Cuttings - 1984 - 2014
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December 2014
  • London hospital hit by delays gets new £21 million A&E
  • Five of capital's NHS Trusts turn away ambulance crews
​January 2003
  • Barred, Cancer Specialist who dared speak out
  • Cancer Consultant suspended in dosage row
​February 2003
  • Patients 'in limbo' as NHS watchdogs are scrapped
​May 2003
  • ​Complain and simple
July 2003
  • CHC's final gesture
​June 2003
  • ​Milburn quits as Health Secretary
​October 2003
  • ​Hunt fears growing 'arrogance' at CPPIH
March 2002
  • Emergency action for the NHS
​April 2002
  • ​Give the NHS its own tax
  • ​'End test charges', say Community Councils
  • Call to cut charges
  • Stage set for tax rises to fund NHS charges
  • End in sight for turf wars
  • Shy embrace - the unheralded launch of four pioneer Care Trusts design to integrate health and social care
  • Fraud swoop on NHS drug firms
  • NHS charging system is 'unfair'
  • Call to reform unfair NHS charges
  • Health watchdog dies
  • No increase in English oxygen budget
  • Domestic OTC sales rise by 10 per cent
  • Dispensing Doctors lose VAT case
  • Radical reform is the cure for the NHS not higher taxes, says Iain Duncan Smith
  • NHS set for huge funding rise
  • Beware the backlash
  • Watchdog with teeth to monitor how the new pot of gold is spent
  • How rises may add up to a risky strategy
  • Peers rebel and back patients' Councils
  • Carers looking after mentally ill relatives express anguish
  • Long waits to see a physio
  • Former Speaker leads pleas for Health Watchdog to be saved
  • Public fears the tax take will be wasted
  • Nurses warn Blair over NHS revival plan
  • Blair's regular checks on NHS pulse
  • My hell in casualty
  • How pay demands could sabotage the NHS dream
  • The patients' champion - Claiming compensation for hospital blunders is a booming business
  • A casualty in need of intensive care
  • Any chance of NHS choice?
  • Separate checks 
  • 'Stress on staff was reaching critical levels'
  • Nurses ambush Milburn over pay
  • Trusts set out stalls for German Doctors - Develop your healthcare career in the United Kingdom
​July 2002
  • Patients ready to go abroad, BMA poll finds
  • NHS charges 'confusing: new Report
  • Commission for Health Improvement's reports inconsistent
  • Medical agencies merger
  • Community Health Councils abolished
  • Heart patients to pick their hospital
  • Surgeons 'deliver grim news badly'
  • More care needed
  • 'How did he get away with it for so long?' - GP spent 20 years indecently assaulting female patients
  • Public prepared to give up on NHS and travel abroad
  • BMA finds strong public support for private-sector role in the NHS
  • Healthy difference - Doctors should lead a rigorous debate
  • Caesareans 'slow new conceptions'
  • Woman, 108, starves herself to death
  • Shipman victims' families protest over TV film
  • Foreign aid for the NHS
  • Warning: the NHS is good for you
  • 'Carers need reassurance they're doing the right thing'
  • BMA Chief:  Stop using NHS to score Party points
  • BMA anger at 'Punch and Judy' politics
  • NHS is not a factory, says Doctors' Leader
  • Health service is now political Punch and July, says BMA Chief
  • Brand new approach - Mental Health Charity 'Rethink'
  • Livingston tells parents to give babies single jabs
  • Milburn hits back at Blair adviser over two-tier NHS
  • Visiting charge - Care Home residents paying medical fees
  • Doctor who devoted 50 years to the NHS delivers his sad diagnosis:  'it is incurable'
  • Health watchdog has role to play in helping patients
  • 'Third World' NHS facing an emergency says Doctors' Leader
  • UK leads way in reducing cancer toll
  • Perceived flaws in Mental Health Bill
  • Hard-hit A&E feels pressure
  • Swapping of single Rubella Vaccine provokes outcry
  • Family Planning Clinics to offer 'abortion pill'
  • Nutrition for physically frail older people
  • Are patients waiting in vain?
  • HRT trial cancelled over cancer and stoke fears
  • Nutrition fear for four in ten patients as hospitals fail to see danger
  • Police 'appalled' as Officers are told to reject aged patients
  • Watchdog final curtain
  • Conference is health watchdog's 'swansong'
  • Health group's final meeting - Grimsby
  • New superbug found in hospital
  • 'Blocked tube' death was an accident
  • MPs call Milburn to account over evading questions
  • Elderly to get option to buy home care
  • Private arrangement - NHS Trust forced to open pay beds to keep consultants
  • Guarantee to patients on cancelled ops
  • Forum and Against - the final conference of ACHCEW
  • CHC staff transfer talks delayed 'in bad faith'
  • BMA says NHS plan will not fill vacant GP posts
  • Psychiatrists to join protest over Bill
  • The Battle for ratings - Nursing Times takes an in-depth look at an evaluation system
  • Reaching for the stars
  • Lib Dems launch new battle over regional control 
  • An eye on the scrutineers
​August 2002
  • 'The NHS is like an miracle.  You take it for granted'
  • Hospital horrors
  • Ambulance services accused for fiddling 999 response times
  • Hoaxer brands Milburn a web 'philanderer'
  • Making up for lost ground
  • Private GP boom as millions shun NHS
  • Firms warn they may quite PFI projects
  • Milburn in total surrender on Care Home standards
  • Reform, not fines, is the solution to the GP 'crisis'
  • Doctors' crisis will get worse, says BMA Chief
  • Overworked GPs refuse to accept new patients
  • Overworked GPs told they arrange their work badly
  • Website 'threat' to cancer patients
  • Top-rated hospital's Chief suspended in list inquiry
  • Struggling GPs refuse to take on new patients
  • Future of the GP service is under threat
  • Ministers could rule out legal aid for cases of medical negligence
  • Doctors on the critical list
  • Hospitals fail to buy cheap life-saving device
  • Blair forced to shelve NHS reforms
  • 'No enthusiasm' for electing patients on to Trust Boards say experts
  • Inquests 'do not fit needs of bereaved'
  • ​Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health
​September 2002
  • Milburn and Brown feud over reforms for NHS hospitals
  • Checking up n Doctors' costing NHS millions
  • Heart patient walks out over long wait
  • A&Es 'not ready for chemical incidents'
  • Pregnant woman lost baby after hospital sent her home
  • NHS targets of costs and waiting lists
  • Mental Health Act protests march called off
  • Hospital puts local patients at end of queue
  • New hands - recruiting care staff
  • Hospital's u-turn over waiting lists
  • List of complaints
  • Ministers hope to flouridate much more tap water
  • Inspectors slate hospital over staff shortages
  • Patients lose GPs surgery to Asylum Seekers
  • Why I'll battle against the Bill
  • Surgeon tricked patients for profit
  • Hospital puts 140 operations under microscope
  • A&E Chief promises to cut delays
  • Fifth of GPs plan early retirement
  • NHS Tsar to end hospital trolley waits
  • Ministers appoint close adviser to end A&E chaos
  • Freedom Fight - Mental Health workers on the march
  • Strategy seeks to cut number of suicides by 20% in eight years
  • Lib Dems argue for devolution in NHS
  • Patients suffer as hospitals fiddle lists
  • Exit toll on older people
  • Hospital Chiefs who fiddled waiting lists net new NHS jobs
  • NHS wastes £150 million on dental treatment
  • Dentists get their teeth into £158 million they don't deserve
  • Doctors won't see you now - some patients face a 17-day wait to visit their GP
  • Give private patients tax breaks, say Tories
  • Common sense advice for NHS
  • NHS 'disgrace'
  • Section 28 'should include the NHS'
  • Hundreds of GPs forded to take extra patients may retire too early
  • For love or money 
  • Concerns raised over 'gap' in NHS spending
  • Backing for move to 'free the NHS'
​November 2002
  • Shake-up 'will not improve health service'
  • Brown camp seeks sell-off limit - privatisation poses grave risks, admits aide
  • Casualty waiting times reduced
  • Fear of new watchdog with 'no bite'
  • Taking away patient voice
  • Is Mr. Milburn serious about patient and public involvement in health?
  • Check shows increase in waiting times
  • Watchdog's warning over Patient Forums
  • Round-the-clock drinking on the way
  • Elected local people to run elite NHS hospitals
  • Public to run new hospitals
  • Hospital scans 'shambolic'
  • 'Shambolic' hospital left patients waiting in pain for scans
  • Dobson will lead rebels opposing NHS reforms
  • Health checks reveal longer waiting times
  • Hospitals are failing heart attack victims
  • Pathology labs 'face cash and recruitment crisis'
  • High Court considers verdict after hospital review
  • Milburn clashes with Unison over PFI
  • Northern Lights - crisis management and blame culture pervade our healthcare system 
  • Breathing fire into the ashes
  • Bed 'fines' will hit care of elderly, say Councils
  • Praise for Northern hospitals
​December 2002
  • No whistle-blowers in the new NHS
  • Patient Forums criticised for lack of Doctor involvement
  • Consumer watchdog warns over health testing kits
  • Gauntlet thrown down to three hospitals
  • Milburn tries to defuse row over 'two-tier' hospitals
  • NHS private patients curb
  • Labour heads revolt on foundation hospitals
  • ​Fertility Clinic cheat faces jail
July 2000
  • Patients' Champion for every hospital
  • Health Secretary burns midnight oil to deliver ambitious NHS plans
June:   1999
  • Primary Care in London - an update, developing genuine partnerships - GLACHC
​March:   1994
  • ​Health watchdogs slam chemist plan
  • GP fundholding - what it means for patients
  • The patient/GP relationship
  • Protect patients' trust
  • Incentive to dump costly patients?
  • Conservative MPs attack public finance initiative
  • Commons fury over NHS 'bar' on the elderly
  • Sick elderly 'denied some treatments'
  • Older patients 'being denied access to NHS'
August:   1991
  • ​General Dental Council - Professional conduct and fitness to practice
  • Hospitals 'guess surgery prices'
  • Financial information in NHS 'inadequate'
  • Report raps specialists for GP failings on AIDS
  • Councils 'failing to provide home help'
  • Warnock calls for enquiry to confront genetic research fears
  • Doctors face curb on health cover fees
  • Consultants' fees under pressure
  • Medical Chief urges anti-poverty fight
  • Slow response to region's success in curbing AIDS
June:   1991
​January:   1990
  • Stand up for Patient Rights
  • Reins tighten up for future CHCs
  • Watchdog chained to the margins
  • Buckle down for a bumpry ride
  • Financial tasks laid out for providers
  • Call for extra CHC power
  • ​Civil Servants admit target fears

July and November:   1989
  • Watchdogs feel the threat of living on the edge
  • CHCs to be consulted on Contracts?
January1984, February 1984 - July 1985 and March 1987
  • ​Cash cuts 'threat' to health body
  • College concern for watchdog's future
  • Abortion link to drugs may spark warning
  • Threat to quit association sparks probe - re ACHCEW amid speculation that several Councils will quit the Association
  • Councils of despondency
  • Community Health Councils - looking for their niche
​Undated:   
  • A day in the life of a lifesaver