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Extended 'talking therapies' programme aims to tackle anxiety, mental illness and depression The government is to announce that divorcing couples will be offered counselling on the National Health Service for the first time in...
Couples are to be offered marriage guidance counselling for free on the NHS, in a move which has drawn strong condemnation from patients and doctors' groups. By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent Andy Burnham, the health...
Annette Brooke MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole led the charge in the Queen's Speech debate on health and education. She called upon the Government to investigate the delay in new buildings to house Poole Hospital's maternity...
The Conservatives sparked a bitter political row last night by claiming two million pensioners would lose out under new Labour plans to reform the system of elderly care. By Andrew Porter, Political Editor Conservative Party...
Health secretary Andy Burnham says it is gutter politics to claim benefits for pensioners with disabilities will be cut The government accused the Tories of "scaremongering" and "gutter politics" today for refusing to support...
A shadow culture secretary begins to makes his mark THE Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has rarely been the frivolous sideshow suggested by its Whitehall nickname, “the ministry of fun”. It was a training ground...
Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health and MP for Leigh, launched the start of infrastructure work at Bickershaw Colliery in Leigh, near Wigan. He was joined by Deborah McLaughlin, Regional Director North West at Homes and...
Liver cancer sufferers are being condemned to an early death by being denied a new drug on the Health Service, campaigners warn. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (building pictured) said the cost of...
The early morning radio and television headlines yesterday gave the game away: the Queen's Speech will include more public service reforms, including measures to provide care for the elderly in their own homes. Oh, and by the...
I am struggling to persuade myself that today's Queen's speech was anything other than a trivial occasion Was the turnout of Labour MPs ready to troop over to the Lords for the Queen's speech even thinner than usual? About 50%...
