A 29-year-old trans person who felt “dismissed, ignored and lied to” by mental health workers took their own life outside a hospital despite “screaming very loudly for help to stay
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Hospital patients are being left to die alone because of staff shortages, according to a new report. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said its research suggested that only a
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Keeping patients consistently safe and losing the confidence of the Department of Health are issues facing the hospitals regulator, an internal document suggests. Produced by the Care Quality Commission (CQC),
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One third of people attending Scotland’s emergency departments waited longer than four hours, according to the latest weekly figures. Statistics released by Public Health Scotland show 66% of patients were
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Convicted multiple murderer Lucy Letby has told a court she is “not the sort of person that kills babies” and she was “not guilty of what I was found guilty
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Senior medics warned of a “shameful, shocking” and “dangerous” situation for patients attending England’s A&E departments as figures showed almost 440,000 patients waited 12 hours or more to be admitted
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Truly “harrowing” scenes from an A&E department have been uncovered in a new investigation as a think-tank analyst said people are dying in emergency care in England “who don’t need
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The NHS will be encouraged to buy up social care beds in a bid to get medically-fit patients out of hospitals faster, Labour has said. Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes
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Millions of people over the age of 50 in the UK have concerns about struggling to access healthcare, according to new analysis by Age UK. It comes as one elderly
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The proportion of people waiting more than four hours to be seen in A&E departments has typically been higher in Wales than either England or Scotland over the past decade,
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