YouTube star DanTDM has shared his love of gaming with children undergoing treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) by funding specialist equipment through a £310,000 donation. The money from
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Leading emergency doctors have raised concerns about the safety of patients in A&E departments as winter approaches. A new snapshot survey from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) found
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Stormont’s former health minister Robin Swann has admitted he did not provide sufficient direction in preparing for a surge in the number of critical cases during the early months of
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Failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care and take control of finances, under Government plans. Health Secretary
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The NHS’s backlog of care would not be as bad if the government had given it permission to expand the number of hospital beds in the middle of the Covid-19
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A group of clinicians and patients has called on the government at Holyrood to adopt a “Scotland-wide focus” on chronic kidney disease (CKD), saying that as many as 600,000 Scots
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Patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act will have more dignity and a say over their care under proposed reforms to what has been described as an “outdated” system. Among
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A hospital worker allegedly caused the death of a 22-year-old mental health patient after she gained access to materials that she had used in earlier suicide attempts, a court has
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Health experts have teamed up to produce a strategy aimed at tackling the key risk factors causing death and ill-health in Scotland, accusing the Scottish Government of having lost its
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The first UK case of a potentially deadly strain of the mpox virus has been detected in London. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the risk to the UK
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