More than 650 lives a year could be saved, as well as thousands of diabetes cases and heart attacks avoided, if 40- to 74-year-olds took up NHS checks, the Health Secretary has said.

Prince Charles has apparently been lobbying Jeremy Hunt about the controversial alternative treatment, much to the annoyance of Labour MPs

Inside Westminister: So much for the PM’s statesmanlike, consensual and ‘no scapegoats’ approach

Parliament divided as Keogh report results in special measures for 11 hospitals

In what seems like another age, but was actually February this year, David Cameron made a sober, non-partisan Commons statement on the Francis report’s exposure of the gruesome failings of the Mid Staffs Hospitals Trust.

The NHS needs a blame-free culture, a spirit of openness and the ambition to succeed

Has his work for a tobacco giant had any influence over government policy?

Only Boris Johnson scores higher in a poll that boosts the Home Secretary's chances of taking over the party leadership

The results of an independent review show concerns raised by family members over the care of their dying loved ones

Confusion over whether the charges would apply to maternity services, says RCM

Foreigners who visit Britain for more than six months will be made to pay at least £200 a year to use NHS services, under a set of proposals to be introduced tomorrow.

Under-fire officials threatened to sue the Care Quality Commission in an eleventh-hour bid to stop their names being linked to an alleged cover-up, it emerged today.

A former inspector of the Care Quality Commission has described how criticism was quashed and ‘good people’ were forced to shut up or quit

As the revelations about the alleged CQC cover-up emerge, Emily Dugan visits its call centre