A Cambridge University professor is lending his support to parents who are campaigning for a statutory public inquiry examining around 2,000 mental health patient deaths. Leading autism researcher Professor Sir
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Children’s mental health support across England is subject to a “postcode lottery”, with average waiting times of 40 days for starting treatment, a new report has warned. The Children’s Commissioner
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A surgeon who may have infected two new mothers with herpes has been granted anonymity during the inquests into their deaths in an “unprecedented” ruling. Coroner Catherine Wood said she
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Getting cancer care back on track could take a year longer than previously thought after a huge spike in the number of people coming forward for care, NHS England officials
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More than a thousand people have signed up to provide friendly phone calls from the NHS for vulnerable, isolated or lonely patients in England. GPs, pharmacists and other healthcare workers
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Scotland has become the first part of the UK to stop using an anaesthetic gas in the NHS which has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide.
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Norovirus levels across the country are “the highest we have seen at this time of year in over a decade”, a doctor at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has
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Some 23,000 “excess patient deaths” may have occurred due to long A&E wait last year, a medical college has claimed. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said that in
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Wales’ biggest health board has been placed into special measures again, the Welsh Government has announced. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board was placed into special measures after a series of
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A shortage of neurology staff in the NHS is preventing people with multiple sclerosis (MS) from accessing cutting-edge treatments, a charity has said. The MS Society said overstretched staff are
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