A series of crucial targets were missed in November including waiting time for urgent cancer treatment and ambulances Denis Campbell and Haroon Siddique writing for The Guardian (14/01/2016): Growing numbers of patients are waiting longer than...
Charlie Cooper for The Independent 11/09/2015) – As final details are ironed out in a deal between health authorities in Kent and France, not everyone is impressed The English have a long-running love affair with...
Charlie Cooper writes in The Independent (05/09/2015) on the shameful state of our healthcare when – NHS cuts to drugs fund means thousands of cancer patients in England will be denied life-extending treatments. Thousands of...
Hugh Alderwick writes for the King’s Fund – a blog about the problem of overuse in the NHS: where people get services they don’t want or need, which can lead to unnecessary harm and wasted...
More than half of GPs would be willing to help a patient die if it was legal, a survey has revealed. Just a year ago a poll showed far fewer – 19 per cent –...
The coalition government will leave office with the NHS in the red for the first time in a decade – and with waiting times at their highest in years, independent experts have warned. In a...
Manchester’s plans for developed healrth and social care have been hailed as a blueprint that could rescue the NHS from its cash crisis. Under the proposals for devolved powers announced last month, Greater Manchester will...
More than 2,000 people have been given laser treatment after having second thoughts about their body “art”. And last night MPs branded it a “sheer waste” at a time when many hospitals are working at...
An Exclusive in the Sunday People reports that Labour will create a new independent NHS body to protect health workers if it wins the General Election. Known as NHS staff champions, they will be the...
Tony Brooks for the Daily Express reports that a Welsh resident claims he was treated like a health tourist by English hospital bosses who branded him a “foreigner” and billed him £1,775. Nicholas White fell...
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