A charity has called on health boards to take urgent action after a major survey found some cancer patients are facing delays in diagnosis, poor care and a lack of
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A scandal-hit ambulance trust is to be put into special measures after a regulator found it was putting patients at risk. In a series of damning reports, the Care Quality
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The Government is being warned it will be in breach of minimum wage laws if it does not inject £280 million into the NHS by the end of the decade.
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One in five carers have taken their loved one to A&E due to failures in GP out-of-hours services and district nursing, figures suggest. A new report from the charity Carers
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Jeremy Hunt must set out how he intends to stop hospitals discharging patients in the middle of the night unless they specifically want to go home, MPs have said. The
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The number of drug-related hospital stays rose by almost 500 in the last year, according to official figures. There were 7,537 hospital admissions with a diagnosis of drug misuse in
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Allegations against nurses and midwives will no longer be available for public scrutiny ahead of disciplinary hearings, a regulator has said. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which was criticised
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Healthcare assistants (HCAs) are being used as “nurses on the cheap”, with some working beyond their expertise, according to a new report. Despite a lack of training, HCAs are often
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Thousands of parents of sick or premature babies are being prevented from having close involvement in their child’s hospital care because of a lack of support services, a new report
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Scotland’s Chief Statistician today published the results from the Inpatient Census, 2016. This Statistics Release presents the latest national figures for patients occupying a Mental Health, Learning Disability or
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