Children’s healthcare is being “increasingly compromised” as a result of staffing shortages across the UK’s paediatric units, leading doctors have warned. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
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Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University (ABMU) Health Board has issued a warning to job applicants from overseas. The Health Board say a ‘recruitment scam’ is targeting healthcare workers with false job
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Patient safety could be at risk because doctors, nurses and dentists from the EU are not facing stringent enough language tests, leading medics have said. In just one year, 29
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Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith has accused the Tories of having a “secret plan to privatise the NHS” ahead of a major speech on the health service. It will be
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Thousands of pounds is to be injected into a successful violence reduction project to make its services available in Edinburgh. The Navigator project, which already operates at Glasgow Royal Infirmary,
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The number of days patients are spending in hospitals due to so-called “bed blocking” is at its second-highest figure on record. New data for England has revealed that people occupying
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Some patients with a rare form of cancer could be facing a postcode lottery as to whether or not they will receive a biological therapy drug, a charity has warned.
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The deaths of hundreds of patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act may not have been investigated properly, it has emerged. All deaths of people detained under the Act, even
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Three nurses who faked blood sugar readings of their patients have been struck off the nursing register for good. Rebecca Jones, 31, Lauro Bertulano, 46, and 42-year-old Natalie Jones were
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Three nurses caught faking blood sugar readings of vulnerable patients face being struck off the nursing register for good. Rebecca Jones, 31, and Lauro Bertulano, 46, were both jailed last
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