An 80-year-old man died in hospital after waiting 23 hours for an ambulance and a further seven hours before being admitted, his son has said. Darren Williams, 48, said his
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An ambulance crew went “above and beyond” to allow an elderly husband an emotional reunion with his wife who suffers from dementia. The two ambulance workers, based in Ipswich, Suffolk,
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More must be done to stop dying people having unnecessary emergency admissions to hospital, a charity has said. Marie Curie said emergency admissions for people in their last year of
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An elderly man died while waiting in an accident and emergency unit because of the “dangerous overcrowding of the department”, the trust’s medical director has said. An email leaked from
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Tens of thousands of patients who have been deemed sick enough to be admitted to hospital after attending A&E have been forced to wait for hours on end before being
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The opportunity to potentially save a five-year-old girl with life-threatening asthma was missed after she was turned away from an emergency appointment because she was late, a coroner has ruled.
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NHS trusts are £1.2 billion in the red as they face increasing demand for services, new figures show. At the end of December, NHS providers in England reported a year-to-date
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A 26-year-old woman has been fined £120 after admitting telling paramedics to “move your f***king van” and leaving a foul-mouthed note on their ambulance. Kirsty Sharman pleaded guilty to a
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A spike in cases of norovirus has seen more than 800 hospital beds closed per day last week, latest official figures show. NHS England also said 10,800 patients had to
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A health campaign is being launched urging parents to treat their local pharmacist as their first port of call for minor illnesses in their children, instead of visiting their GP
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