A&E waiting times in Scotland have continued to stagnate as less than two thirds of people were seen within four hours, new figures show. Statistics released by Public Health Scotland
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A woman “lost the ability to talk and became a shadow her former self” after she spent nine months in hospital waiting for a place in a suitable care home,
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The NHS in England is “not sufficiently resilient” ahead of what could be a “difficult” winter, a top doctor has warned as health leaders were meeting to examine winter preparedness
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The Government has revealed plans to pump £250 million into the NHS in a bid to boost capacity and tackle record waiting lists before winter. The move will lead to
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The Government must be wary of “longer-term and unintended consequences” of leaning on private sector capacity to tackle NHS waiting lists, experts have said. The Department of Health and Social
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NHS officials have created a one-stop shop so hospitals in England can find companies which can help them get medically fit patients out of hospital beds. NHS Shared Business Services
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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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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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The NHS is in danger of being buried under a social care “avalanche” as patients struggle to find adequate care to allow them to leave hospital, according to the Liberal
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A commitment to properly fund social care would be the “best 75th birthday present that the NHS could receive”, political party leaders have been told. A coalition of more than
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