Are Burnham and council leaders at loggerheads over NHS devolution deal?
Last night we reported that Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary and MP for Leith, was opposed to plans…
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Devolving NHS budget to Greater Manchester will create a “two-tier health service”, says Burnham
Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary and the MP for Leigh, has criticised devolution plans that will see Greater…
Tory MP says astrology will solve NHS crisis – and those who disagree are racist
A Conservative MP has bizarrely claimed that astrology will help to ease the crisis in NHS hospitals by…
Burnham accuses government of sneaking out regulations to speed up NHS privatisation
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham today accused the government of plans to “open up the NHS to private…
Burnham blasts Cameron over NHS cancer target failure
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has launched an attack on the Prime Minister over the government’s failure to…
Raise National Insurance to secure the future of the NHS, says Labour MP
Labour MP Frank Field has renewed calls to raise National Insurance (NI) contributions in order to fund the…
Focusing on the NHS is the opposite of the strategic dead-end Milburn claims
The oddest and most annoying moment of the General Election campaign for me so far occurred two weeks…
“At times we did get too close to big business” – Burnham reflects on New Labour and the NHS
Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary, has spoken out about New Labour’s relationship with big business and their approach…
Miliband demands Cameron apology for NHS reform mess
Ed Miliband has reacted to new findings by the King’s Fund that describe the Government’s NHS reform as…
Coalition’s NHS reforms have been “damaging and distracting”, report finds
The Coalition’s health reforms – embodied in the Health and Social Care Act – have been damaging and…
