NHS must not use coronavirus crisis as excuse to avoid tackling failings, MPs say
Sir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS since 2014, has been criticised for the decision to discharge thousands of hospital...
Sir Simon Stevens, head of the NHS since 2014, has been criticised for the decision to discharge thousands of hospital...
The new study identified 43 suspected or confirmed coronavirus sufferers, aged between 16 and 85, who were treated at the...
The NHS and wider healthcare system is "not safe enough" for women taking medication during pregnancy, a damning review has concluded....
Cancer Research UK called for urgent checks to ensure that patients had not been left to slip through the net. ...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has dropped controversial plans to force workers to pay for coronavirus tests organised by their employers through...
In the Commons, the shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, called on Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, to apologise for the...
By now, we know that spending too much time sitting down could take years off our life. Several studies have shown...
Tuesday's ONS figures show that 8,979 deaths from all causes in England and Wales were registered in the week ending...
Lockdowns and travel disruptions have curtailed people’s ability to earn money, while small and medium businesses have lost income and...
Palantir has confidentially filed to go public, paving the way for investors to take a stake in the historically shadowy...
With 29 per cent of adults in England now classed as obese – meaning a body mass index over 30 –...
In the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday, a total of 164,849 tests were provided and the testing capacity for...
Up to nine in ten nurses and doctors who caught Covid during the peak of the pandemic picked it up...
Professor Pat Price, a clinical oncologist, said too much treatment was delayed, on the basis of NHS guidelines, in a...
Dozens of child sex abuse victims have had their compensation cut because they have criminal records, with campaigners calling it...
The number of virtual GP appointments has more than tripled since the coronavirus outbreak amid fears the practice could be...
Dr Jefferson believes that many viruses lie dormant throughout the globe and emerge when conditions are favourable. It also means...
Health Minister Vaughan Gething said: "Merthyr is a very small local authority, so that one incident with that number of...
He said he hoped that by the time the UK was celebrating the NHS's 73rd birthday, a year from now,...
Today the NHS is 72, which is another way of saying that on July 5 1948 the Government nationalised the...
NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said he hoped the public would use the anniversary as an opportunity to "say a...
An emotional family Zoom chat in which his doctor daughter revealed that exhausted NHS staff were “living off cornflakes” moved...
Vulnerable patients across England have been told by their doctors they must continue shielding, despite letters from the Government telling...
All employers with more than five staff are required to produce written risk assessments, showing how they are protecting staff...
According to one Whitehall source, however, frustration is growing among ministers over delays in collecting crucial data from individual NHS...
The new results differ from the latest Public Health England (PHE) statistics, which state that just 43 per cent of...
Mr Johnson then produced a mask that he said was "a bit Hannibal the Cannibal" – the character played by...