Leading health charities have expressed concern over a lack of progress in ensuring communication rights for all people trying to access NHS services. A number of people are not able
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The cost of maintenance work on England’s hospitals exceeded £1 billion last year, data shared by ministers has revealed. Some £1,013,000,000 was spent on maintaining the hospitals estate in the
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Scotland’s health secretary has said the recovery of the NHS after its toughest winter ever could take years. Speaking to STV’s Scotland Tonight, Humza Yousaf said he still believed he
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Planned strikes next week by nurses, ambulance workers and other health staff in Wales have been called off after a new pay offer from the Welsh government. The GMB was
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A petition signed by 100,000 members of the public, nursing staff and patients will be delivered to 10 Downing Street on Thursday calling on the Prime Minister to pay nursing
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A High Court judge has raised concern about a shortage of suitable placements for vulnerable children after being told how a 12-year-old girl with severe learning difficulties had been “marooned”
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Staff at an ambulance trust frequently responded to emergencies without enough medicine, inspectors have found. A damning report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) said patients were facing treatment delays
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Around 1,500 more patients of convicted breast surgeon Ian Paterson will be recalled so their treatment can be investigated. Spire Healthcare, which runs private hospitals, said the patients were being
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Staff will be compelled to give evidence to an inquiry examining around 2,000 mental health patient deaths if there is not a “quantum leap” in co-operation, according to the Government.
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The Department of Health and Social Care has missed the deadline for submitting evidence on next year’s pay award for more than a million NHS staff, MPs have been told.
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