Nursing vacancies are one of the “biggest threats” facing the health service, a leading think tank has warned. One in 10 nursing posts are unfilled, the Health Foundation said. The
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Nurses have reported feeling exhausted, sick and dizzy as the hot weather raises temperatures in hospitals. One nurse was admitted to A&E with dehydration after working three 12-hours shifts in
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A judge in the specialist Court of Protection has ruled, without analysing evidence at a hearing, that a woman in a permanent vegetative state should be allowed to die. Mr
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The hiring of a private company employed to perform various back-office tasks for the NHS in England “was a shambles”, MPs have said. In a scathing report on NHS England’s
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Police would have interviewed a doctor accused of the “horrific” abuse of 114 children had he been alive today, a report has found. Child patients sent to Aston Hall Hospital
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A decision to suspend rather than strike off a doctor found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter over the death of a six-year-old boy was “humane and balanced”, the Court of
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The NHS estate in England is in a “dire” state, Labour has said after uncovering the number of potholes across the health service. The party said that since 2010 there
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Hospitals have “forgotten the basic lessons of patient care”, researchers have suggested, with children struggling to sleep on noisy wards. Noise levels at night for young patients exceeded the maximum
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Nearly 1,700 medical requests for hip or knee surgery were turned down last year – a sharp rise from the previous year, a report suggests. In 2017/18, 1,675 requests by
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A health watchdog has raised concerns over how some diagnostic services are run after finding that tens of thousands of patients were caught up in backlogs. Backlogs in radiology services
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