One of the country’s best-known private mental health clinics has been ordered to make improvements after inspectors ruled the safety of its care was “inadequate”. The Priory Hospital, in Roehampton,
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Patients are suffering in pain due to NHS rationing, which is affecting access to community nurses and hip operations, a new report says. People at the end of their life
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The NHS’s longest serving chief executive has been placed on extended leave after an investigation was launched into “a number of very serious issues”. Sir Leonard Fenwick, who has run
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A former NHS chief executive has walked free from court after admitting paying her husband more than £11,000 from her budget. Paula Vasco-Knight, 53, was in charge of South Devon
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Uber taxis could soon be used to transfer non-emergency patients to and from hospital after a deal was struck between an NHS trust and social care company Cera. The deal
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England’s top hospital inspector has warned that safety remains a “real concern” in the NHS after it emerged four out of five NHS trusts need to improve on patient safety.
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Soaring numbers of people are ending up in hospital for illicit drug poisoning, new figures indicate. There were rises in admissions across all age groups, including for patients aged 75
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Dying people are being left with inadequate round-the-clock pain relief and poor access to specialist help, according to new research. They are caught in a postcode lottery which affects whether
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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that there is “no evidence” that patients have been put at risk after the NHS mislaid more than 700,000 pieces of confidential medical correspondence.
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NHS doctors’ experiences of “grave pressure” they face while working in the health service have been laid bare in a new report. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said its
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