Stephen Hayward for the Sunday Mirror reports that PARKING charges at NHS hospitals are rising despite Government promises to tackle the rip-off fees. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt issued new guidelines last August so patients and...
Patients should be able to top-up their NHS treatment with small monthly payments in return for an ‘enhanced’ service, a report suggests. Allowing people who can afford it to invest extra money would raise billions...
Most national media sources this week have run the story of how a “totally shocking” report by one of the country’s most respected businessmen into how the NHS is run was handed into the Department...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Foreign patients will have to prove they are entitled to free NHS care in a clampdown on health tourism. In order to register with a GP, EU nationals will be required to show their European...
A crisis-hit NHS hospital has had Army medics treating patients. Patients were shocked to see the troops on duty at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London, last month. Last year the hospital’s A&E department was...
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