Major ambulance trusts are increasingly relying on private ambulances to attend 999 calls, an investigation has found. Research by PA news agency shows England’s ambulance trusts spent more than £92
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A teenage boy has been charged after more than 80 firefighters worked overnight battling a “suspicious” blaze at a high school in Fife. Fifteen fire appliances attended the “large and
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Patients with a serious lung injury could be helped by new method of monitoring recovery, a study suggests. The new system uses mathematical modelling to more accurately indicate how well
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Boris Johnson has suggested a cross-party approach may be needed to deal with the “huge issue” of social care. The Prime Minister – who used his first speech in office
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Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith is to advise a Government review into hospital food following the deaths of six people due to a listeria outbreak. A “root and
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Assaults and drug use have dropped across 10 English prisons involved in a pilot scheme launched last year to tackle violence in troubled jails. Positive drug tests fell by roughly
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A 93-year-old pensioner has died from “broken heart syndrome” after she suffered PTSD when her home was burgled two months ago. Betty Munroe was pronounced dead on Wednesday after three
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The UK’s medical advisory body has refused to recommend a cannabis-based drug on the NHS to treat two severe forms of childhood epilepsy. The National Institute for Health and Care
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Jeremy Corbyn has warned the Government is “failing a whole generation of children” who are falling victim to rising homelessness and poverty. The Labour leader’s remarks come after a report
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A High Court judge says a Government office which provides help to vulnerable people embroiled in litigation should consider offering an out-of-hours service. Mrs Justice Theis oversees hearings in the
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