An NHS Trust will review 10 killings involving its patients after admitting it “got things wrong” with the treatment of a mentally ill man who stabbed a retired solicitor to
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People with a suspected case of cancer will be given a definitive diagnosis within four weeks under ambitious new plans to provide “world-class” cancer care in England. NHS England has
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An NHS whistleblower who claimed she was badly treated by a hospital trust after alleging it had been fixing its death rates was treated unfairly, a report has found. Manager
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Staffing gaps in the NHS could lead to “shortcomings” in quality of care for patients, leading MPs have warned. The shortage of clinical staff in the NHS could mean longer
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Many patients are being inappropriately sent home from hospital “alone, afraid and unable to cope”, according to a damning new report. People are being “badly let down by the system”,
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The concept of the so-called “weekend effect” on mortality rates for patients admitted to hospital on Saturdays and Sundays is a “major oversimplification” of a complex issue, experts have said.
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Failures in heart attack care are leading to tens of thousands of deaths, a new study has found. Around 33,000 deaths could have been avoided over a 10-year period if
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The NHS is “beginning to turn a corner” on the issue of agency staff expenditure, the Health Secretary has insisted, as Labour claimed such spending had “gone through the roof”
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Boots is considering offering more complex treatments in-store, including skin cancer checks and diabetes management. The company’s chief pharmacists told The Times that the NHS needed the firm to help
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A grieving mother broke down in tears and spoke of her frustration that doctors could not find out what was wrong with her son in the run-up to his death.
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