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Lansley defends role of competition in NHS

Plans to level the playing field between private and NHS providers of healthcare have proved the most contentious aspect of reforms opposed by the medical profession

Lack of clarity taints NHS reform

A look at why the reform programme is proving so controversial

Clegg fury at Tory moves to kill health bill

Lib Dem leader fears ministers’ lobbying could destabilise coalition

House of Lords votes against NHS bill

Cameron tells MPs it is vital to reform NHS

Lansley under fire over NHS reforms

Tories fear bill could damage election chances

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The coalition is prescribing bad policy and worse politics

Philip Stephens

Whitehall officials fear meltdown. There is still time – just – for the government to change course on NHS reform, writes Philip Stephens

What voters never hear about the English health service

Many recoil in horror when words such as efficiency and profit are even mentioned in the field of healthcare, writes Iain Martin

A second opinion on NHS reform

UK government should drop a misconceived bill

Parts of NHS reform mess could be saved

Lansley’s regulator will be responsible for foundation trusts, helping set the prices they get and deciding how much competition they face

Bring back matron

The Care Quality Commission must not hesitate to shut down services if failures are not corrected. However, the government must provide the resources it needs to do the job

NHS calamity to keep Cameron awake at night

Philip Stephens

What has emerged can be described as a dangerous hotchpotch of measures certain to bring tears to patients and politicians, writes Philip Stephens

The way to save the NHS – close hospitals

Philip Stephens

Few things frighten politicians more than campaigns against closure of constituency accident and emergency or maternity units, writes Philip Stephens

UK’s health halt

The risk was always that compromises would undermine the main goals of the health service reform – and, sadly, that seems to have happened

UK health fiasco is becoming contagious

This threatens to taint the cause of modernisation across the public services. The poll tax was probably the last example of a policy as badly conceived as it was politically self-destructive, writes Philip Stephens

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Health and welfare battle intensifies

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Warning NHS faces ‘critical year’

Ministers braced for private patients row

NHS reforms ‘risk problem solving’

NHS to boost health-linked payments to doctors

NHS reform to boost use of new medicine

Health secretary hits back in NHS ‘rationing’ row

Burnham returns with passion for NHS

Key NHS role to be part-time job

Labour pledges to fight on over NHS reform

NHS reforms clear hurdle in Lords

Market forces in NHS have not hit poor, says study

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