Several daily newspapers have, today, highlighted the delays in admitting patients to hospital from A&E because of a shortage of beds. This is leading to “hundreds of deaths per year” in the UK, the royal...
Drink-related deaths in Britain have fallen to there lowest in a decade, figures released have shown. However, low-paid workers such as cleaners and labourers are four times more likely to die than professionals, the Office...
Charlie Cooper of The Independent reports that the only NHS hospital run by a private company has asked for a £10m tax-payer funded bailout. Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, is due to be handed back to...
After losing his wife to cancer on Christmas Day, scientist billy Boyle vowed to do all he could to help others who could be saved by an early diagnosis. And now, less than two months...
Private paramedics are being hired at a cost of up to £84 an hour to take the strain off under-resourced NHS ambulance services. Unions say the crew get up to seven times more than health...
Hospitals must end the use of gagging clauses to silence whistleblowers, an inquiry will say this week. A long-awaited report by by Sir Robert Francis will demand the NHS does far more to end its...
Watch the heartwarming video of the loyal dog and his master In Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, a disabled old man, aged 86, is helped by his loyal dog every single day. Fu has no legs...
The NHS’s unprecedented decision to put 11 trusts intro special measures is likely to have saved hundreds of lives, experts have said. Death rates fell at the trusts after the 2013 intervention, spearheaded by NHS...
The Sunday People writes – Social Networking sites – what are they good for? Absolutely nothing, some might say. Or, at least, nothing that is particularly helpful or in any way useful. Day after day...
Whistleblowers who flagged up a lack of action by council bosses were bullied, harassed and driven out of their jobs, a report reveals. Instead of acting on the confidential information given to them to help...
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