The practice of sending mentally ill people long distances for treatment should end, a commission has said, as experts branded some services “potentially dangerous”. Around 500 mentally ill people every
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Locum doctors and nurses are unfairly earning significantly more than their NHS counterparts by working for “rip-off agencies”, according to health sector regulators. Monitor and the NHS TDA (Trust Development
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The Department of Health has announced it will cut around 650 jobs to reduce its running costs. Non-senior staff numbers will be slashed from 1,800 to between 1,200 and 1,300
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Around 8,500 “bed-blocking” patients are stuck in NHS hospitals every day – costing the health service £900 million a year and driving up use of the private sector, a report
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Reductions to council’s public health grants are “cuts to the NHS in all but name”, council leaders have said. The Local Government Association warned there would be a “major impact”
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An independent commission has called for a fundamental change to the way care for older people is designed and delivered, so that care is tailored around individuals rather than institutions.
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Unexpected deaths among mental health patients under NHS care have soared by more than a fifth over the last three years, according to new figures. The data, obtained by the
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The mother of a baby whose death has thrown doubt on whether the NHS’s out-of-hours helpline can identify when children have potentially deadly illnesses has described the whole situation as
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Jeremy Hunt has apologised to the parents of a baby who died, saying they were “let down in the worst possible way” by the NHS. In a statement to MPs,
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Health workers have been urged to look out for symptoms of the Zika virus in patients returning to the UK from countries affected by the outbreak. Officials said that health
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