Lives are being put at risk because of a so-called treatment lottery in healthcare for people who have self-harmed or been suicidal, experts have warned. All such patients should be
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More than a quarter of NHS workers have been bullied, harassed or abused in the last year, while four in 10 have felt unwell due to work-related stress, a poll
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The Government’s new post-Brexit immigration system will need so many exemptions it will be “meaningless”, Labour has claimed. Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott criticised the plan, which seeks to lower
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Psychiatry doctors specialising in addiction could become a thing of the past unless action is taken to stop the decline in training posts, experts have warned. The Royal College of
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The family of a woman who “effectively starved to death” while in psychiatric care have won a High Court fight for a new inquest into her death. Jennifer Lewis, 45,
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Officials are working to trace patients of two healthcare workers who are among eight people in the UK to be diagnosed with coronavirus. The pair, who were working in general
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Cancer patients in England are not being given enough information about their diseases due to NHS staff shortages, a leading charity has warned. Macmillan Cancer Support said at least 120,000
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The NHS should fund hospice care to end the “postcode lottery” in end-of-life support, ministers have been urged. Independent crossbench peer Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (pictured), a doctor and professor
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Jeremy Hunt has called for an inquiry into the safety of maternity services amid reports of avoidable baby deaths at NHS hospitals. The former health secretary raised the issue of
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Charities have called for action to tackle spiralling sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in England in a new report. STI rates are “unacceptably high”, with a diagnosis every 70 seconds on
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