Breast cancer assessment appointments are to be offered in fewer hospitals in Northern Ireland under proposals to consolidate services and reduce waiting times. The Department of Health is planning to
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The NHS is unable to train enough GPs and nurses to meet demand and the situation is at crisis point, leading health experts have warned. The King’s Fund, Nuffield Trust
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An innovative new tool for quickly diagnosing often deadly auto-immune infections will save lives, the Health Secretary said. At least a third of those with sepsis die at present. Every
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Council social services bosses say they are trying to arrange a care package for a woman with mental health difficulties after a judge said she had “effectively been detained” in
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Louis Theroux will explore postpartum mental illness in his upcoming BBC Two documentary. Mothers On The Edge will see the filmmaker spending time in two specialist psychiatric units which treat
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NHS trusts are struggling to get hold of an expanding list of drugs amid uncertainty over the UK’s future relationship with the EU, health leaders have warned. The number of
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Fewer UK graduates joined the medical register last year than doctors who trained outside the country, figures show. A total of 7,183 UK-trained doctors were registered for the first time
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Two hospitals have apologised for not telling a woman she had terminal cancer until a week before she died. Beverley Smith, 63, from Truro, Cornwall, died in July last year
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Thousands of dying people are spending their last days being rushed to and from hospital, figures show. More than 26,000 people in England had three or more trips to A&E
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A coroner has criticised doctors for their “gross failure” in not diagnosing a two-year-old girl with sepsis – ruling neglect contributed to her death. Marcie Tadman was being treated for
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