A watchdog has reprimanded a health board after staff members shared patients’ personal data on WhatsApp hundreds of times. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS
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Labour has criticised the “eye-watering waste” of burning half a billion pieces of unused Covid protective gear in China. The Government said it was holding some 589 million unneeded items
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Social care “traffic control centres” and cash incentives for hospital performance are being announced by the NHS in a bid to drive up care standards. The NHS in England is
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People’s experience of A&E is getting far worse, with long waits to be seen and patients not always getting help, according to a new report. Hospital regulator the Care Quality
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Hundreds of patients are taking up hospital beds across England every day despite being ready to leave, due to hold-ups in sorting transport, medicines and paperwork, or because they have
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A woman who lost her wife to a hospital-inquired coronavirus infection has recounted her traumatic experience to the UK inquiry. Jane Morrison (pictured right), of the Scottish Covid Bereaved group,
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A woman whose father died from Covid-19 after he caught the illness in hospital has called for urgent changes to infection control policies and the treatment of bereaved families so
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The Government is on track to break a key promise to build 40 new hospitals by 2030, a report by the public spending watchdog has found. Delays to projects mean
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Ambulance bosses have apologised to families after staff were accused of covering up errors and withholding evidence from coroners when patients died. An independent review has been completed into how
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The NHS Workforce Plan is “achingly vague” when it comes to how the health service will retain staff and should mention the “crucial” matter of pay, according to former doctor
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