But in the 70 years since its creation much has changed. The numbers working for the NHS have boomed. There are now 1.7m people employed by the health service across the UK, making it the fifth ...

"At some point you will need a nurse to provide care," he adds. Life expectancy gains since the NHS' creation have not been matched by increases in healthy life expectancy - on average, people are ...

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

The public would rather have a working NHS than a free health service, according to a new poll. The report by Policy Exchange ...

Women on gynaecological waiting lists and orthopaedics patients are among those who will be offered treatment privately.

Read about the evidence that the chief executive of the Professional Standards Authority, Dr Alan Clamp, gave to the ...