The opportunity to potentially save a five-year-old girl with life-threatening asthma was missed after she was turned away from an emergency appointment because she was late, a coroner has ruled.
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Women face “unacceptable differences” in breast cancer care across England, a new report has concluded. The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Breast Cancer said women face a postcode lottery
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The number of people living with diabetes has doubled in the last 20 years, a charity has said. Diabetes UK said the condition is the “fastest growing health crisis of
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More than 200 million medication errors are made in the NHS every year and could lead to the deaths of thousands of people, researchers say. Mistakes – ranging from giving
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A review has been launched into patient concerns about hormone pregnancy test drug Primodos, vaginal mesh and sodium valproate. Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that Baroness Julia
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A doctor has been suspended from working for a year after an epileptic teenager drowned in a bath while left alone in an NHS care home. Dr Valerie Murphy was
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NHS trusts are £1.2 billion in the red as they face increasing demand for services, new figures show. At the end of December, NHS providers in England reported a year-to-date
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A Tory peer’s links with pharmaceutical companies have been questioned in the Commons after she was chosen to lead a review into NHS patient concerns. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said
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A service user who was convicted of defrauding the health service by claiming over £9,000 in false expenses has been handed a 4 month custodial sentence at Enniskillen Magistrates Court.
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Three quarters of NHS nurses believe that winter pressures on the NHS have hampered their ability to care for dying patients. A new poll found that 77% of nurses said
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