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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Antidepressant prescriptions for children in one part of Scotland have increased by almost 60% in six years, research has found. Experts from the University of Aberdeen compared mental health prescriptions issued
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More than 4,000 European doctors have opted not to work in the NHS following the Brexit vote in 2016, research has revealed. According to analysis from the Nuffield Trust health
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People with Parkinson’s disease are being forced to take desperate measures due to a “hidden” workforce crisis, a charity has warned. Parkinson’s UK warned that workforce shortages among specialist staff
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Unpaid carers and the loved ones they look after are experiencing serious difficulties accessing NHS care and their health is deteriorating as a result, research suggests. A third of carers
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A pioneering video consultation programme that is helping to ease pressure on the health service is to be rolled out to community settings such as libraries. Near Me is already
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A living statue of the pioneering scientist Marie Curie has been adorned with a brightly coloured bra, as part of an effort to encourage more women to check for signs
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There is little evidence that so-called “social prescribing link workers” improve social support or ease the burden on overstretched GP services, a new review has concluded. The new analysis, published
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A former GP accused of a spate of sexual assaults manipulated and groomed younger patients to persuade them to have vaginal and breast examinations, a court has heard. Manish Shah,
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