England’s hospitals were within “hours” of running out of some items of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the early months of Covid-19, Matt Hancock has said. The former health secretary
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YouTube star DanTDM has shared his love of gaming with children undergoing treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) by funding specialist equipment through a £310,000 donation. The money from
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A care assistant who had advanced disease when she was diagnosed with breast cancer underwent “inappropriate” surgery carried out by disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson, an inquest has heard. Giving evidence
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Leading emergency doctors have raised concerns about the safety of patients in A&E departments as winter approaches. A new snapshot survey from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) found
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Stormont’s former health minister Robin Swann has admitted he did not provide sufficient direction in preparing for a surge in the number of critical cases during the early months of
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The number of children admitted to adult wards for mental health treatment in Scotland is continuing to fall, a monitoring body has said. According to a new report by the
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Failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care and take control of finances, under Government plans. Health Secretary
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The NHS’s backlog of care would not be as bad if the government had given it permission to expand the number of hospital beds in the middle of the Covid-19
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A group of clinicians and patients has called on the government at Holyrood to adopt a “Scotland-wide focus” on chronic kidney disease (CKD), saying that as many as 600,000 Scots
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A hospital worker allegedly caused the death of a 22-year-old mental health patient after she gained access to materials that she had used in earlier suicide attempts, a court has
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