Care homes were today urged to improve safety following the death of an elderly resident who fell from an upper floor window.

Orwellian computer databases that would hold the telephone and internet communication records of the entire UK population would be "a step too far for the British way of life", according to the UK's data protection guardian.

It is time to take stock of our National Health Service. In recent months its limitations have been brought sharply into focus by a number of patients who have been denied drug treatment because it is too expensive. When they have offered to pay for it themselves, they have been told that they must ...

Patients should be able to pay for drugs which are not available on the NHS and still receive the rest of their treatment free, doctors said yesterday.

Relatives of patients who died in hospital after contracting the clostridium difficile bacteria, are to take legal action against the health board.

Doctors meeting in Edinburgh today attacked the 'privatisation' of the NHS and called for the service to follow Scotland's lead.