Health chiefs today launched a major initiative designed to improve prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. NHS England announced an independent task force which will develop a five-year action plan
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There will be a record high 2.5 million people living with cancer in the UK in 2015, an increase of almost half a million people in the last five years,
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Health Minister Norman Lamb has admitted the NHS “is not meeting” its targets, as new figures today are expected to show that A&E waiting times have fallen to their worst
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Elderly people are being warned not to store up their health problems for the holidays, for fear they will end up in busy emergency departments with more serious illnesses. A
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Outdated and stigmatising labels are still placed on people with learning disabilities in hospitals in Northern Ireland, the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) said. Terms such as learning difficulty,
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Patients who suffer poor care “too often” face a defensive culture in the health service when they try to complain, according to a health watchdog. Half of those who did
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The King’s Fund has called for an additional £2 billion in funding for the NHS ahead of next week’s Autumn Statement. In a briefing published before the Chancellor makes his
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The Government has been accused of lying over NHS pay as hundreds of thousands of health workers including midwives, nurses, radiographers, cleaners and psychiatric staff stage their second strike in
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Action is being taken to improve the way the NHS in Wales deals with complaints, Health and Social Services Minister Mark Drakeford announced today. Progress has been made in response
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The Vale of Leven Hospital Inquiry has revealed that serious personal and systemic failures contributed to the deaths of 34 patients from Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). The Inquiry, chaired by
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