NHS chief announces plan for patients to control care budget
Vulnerable patients are to be given control of taxpayers’ cash to fund their own treatment in the community under a plan to save money and keep them out of hospitals,
Read MoreVulnerable patients are to be given control of taxpayers’ cash to fund their own treatment in the community under a plan to save money and keep them out of hospitals,
Read MoreA beleaguered health trust has been put into special measures. The action has been taken against the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust after inspectors from the Care
Read MoreA baby has died from blood poisoning after being put on a drip containing a contaminated substance and 14 other babies are being treated with antibiotics after falling ill at
Read MoreHealth service staff angry that their pay is still being capped – despite the economic recovery – are to remind the government today of the millions of hours of unpaid
Read MoreThe Older People’s Commissioner for Wales has called the findings of the Review into care at two hospitals, run by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, a “damning indictment of
Read MoreHospitals are “falling short” on providing proper care to dying people in their final days and hours, a new review has found. There are “significant” variations in care provided by
Read MoreHealth Minister Mark Drakeford has ordered an immediate review of the care of elderly patients at Welsh hospitals following the publication of an independent report into the Princess of Wales
Read MoreA Labour government would put an extra £100 million into GP surgeries in England to pay for an additional three million appointments a year and guarantee NHS patients can see
Read MoreThe NHS is wasting billions of pounds of public money by failing to tackle diabetes early enough, experts have warned. The disease costs the health service nearly £10 billion a
Read MoreThe number of patients getting an infection while receiving NHS care is “unacceptably high”, health officials have warned. Healthcare-associated infections are a “very real threat” to patients, the National Institute
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