Former Labour Health Minister Lord Warner’s call for everyone to pay £10 a month fees to use the NHS got very wide press coverage. The Mail, Telegraph, Times, Guardian and Independent wrote 500-odd-word stories on Warner’s charge-for-the-NHS call.

The Mirror, Sun and other tabloids chipped in with 200-word pieces on Warner’s fees, including his extra demand that patients pay an extra £20 a night for hospital stays. But for all the thousands of words, not one paper reported the basic facts of the story. Continue reading →