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NHS CANCER PATIENTS HIT BY TREATMENT DELAYS AFTER CYBER-ATTACK
One is Barts health NHS trust, which operates five hospitals in London... READ MORE›
ONLY LABOUR CAN RESTORE OUR HEALTH SERVICE TO ITS WORLD CLASS STATUS
NHS England's standard of 95 percent of patients spending four hours or less in A E has not been met since July 2015... READ MORE›
THE GENERAL ELECTION IS A CHANCE TO MAKE A MENTAL HEALTH 'TURNING POINT' A REALITY
At Rethink Mental Illness, we'll be working with people severely affected by mental health issues to speak up for mental illness... READ MORE›
HEALTH SERVICE NEEDS EMERGENCY 25BN PM IS WARNED
Group representing NHS trusts demands end to austerity funding, warning quality of care will suffer without extra funding... READ MORE›
ALMOST UNTREATABLE CPE POSES SERIOUS THREAT TO PATIENTS DOCTORS WARN
In Manchester and London, dealing with CPE has cost NHS trusts almost ?10m... READ MORE›
HALF OF ?2BN BOOST FOR NHS 'SPENT OUTSIDE HEALTH SERVICE'
Extra ?100m spent on external providers in 2015 16 shows NHS cannot cope with rising demand, FT research suggests... READ MORE›
NHS SERVICES FACE 'IMPOSSIBLE' BUDGET CRISIS, HEALTH TRUSTS WARN
Frontline NHS services face mission impossible in meeting next year's targets, health trusts have said... READ MORE›
PRIVATE HEALTHCARE FIRM SIGNS UBER DEAL FOR CARERS AND PATIENTS
In a separate deal, Cera is to provide on-the-go care to patients of several NHS hospitals, covering five million people... READ MORE›
NHS TO REVAMP 111 HELPLINE AFTER SUSTAINED CRITICISM OF SERVICE
NHS 111 uses far fewer nurses each year to answer callers' queries about their symptoms than NHS Direct did... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 600 HEALTH QUANGO CHIEFS ON SIX FIGURE SALARIES AMID CASH CRISIS
NHS England spent ?3.25m on communications in 2015 16, with 52 employees working in the role, compared with 36 in 2013 14, the figures show... READ MORE›
OVER 60% OF NHS TRUSTS IN ENGLAND 'ISSUED HIGH-LEVEL ALERTS THIS WINTER'
The hospital trusts reporting the greatest strain include Salisbury NHS foundation trust, with 47 alerts, six of which were the highest escalation level... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : North East Somerset
VIRGIN CARE WINS ?700M CONTRACT TO RUN 200 NHS AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES
Virgin Care has been handed the contract by both Bath and North East Somerset NHS clinical commissioning group and Conservative-led Bath and North East Somerset council... READ MORE›
THERESA MAY DENIES 'HUMANITARIAN CRISIS' IN BRITAIN'S NHS
Prime minister rejects British Red Cross claims but acknowledges huge pressures on health service... READ MORE›
FEARS OF 'TWO-TIER NHS' AS GPS ALLOW FEE-PAYING PATIENTS TO JUMP THE QUEUE
MPs claim Dorset Private GP service, at up to ?145 per appointment, will mean NHS patients without money will wait even longer for care... READ MORE›
THERESA MAY'S CLAIM ON NHS FUNDING NOT TRUE, SAY MPS
Andrew Lansley, the health secretary in the coalition government, recently called for the NHS to be given ?5bn more than the money already planned... READ MORE›
NHS ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE, WARNS FORMER HEALTH MINISTER
NHS on brink of collapse, warns former health minister... READ MORE›
PROMISED 8BN EXTRA FOR NHS IS NOT ENOUGH SAYS HOSPITALS BOSS
Promised ?8bn extra for NHS is not enough, says hospitals boss... READ MORE›
NHS 'NEEDS EXTRA CASH AND OVERHAUL'
Nhs needs extra cash and overhaul say health bosses... READ MORE›
SPENDING BREAKDOWN REVEALS HOW NHS ENGLAND CASH FLOWED TO PRIVATE FIRMS
Last year, while Dalton ran the company's global health division, BT received 18m in contracts from NHS England... READ MORE›
BATH TIPPER TRUCK CRASH KILLS CHILD AND THREE ADULTS
Bath and North East Somerset Council said nearby Weston All Saints Primary school would be closed on Tuesday... READ MORE›
DOCTORS THREATEN TO BOYCOTT PLAN FOR PATIENTS TO SHOW ID AT HOSPITALS
Doctors have said they will boycott attempts to introduce identification checks as part of government plans to combat health tourism ... READ MORE›
'LETHAL FAILURES' LED TO BABY DEATHS
Into Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust found 20 major failures in care from 2004 to 2013 at Furness General Hospital... READ MORE›
NHS TRANSFORMATION PLANS MAY BE USED AS COVER FOR CUTS, SAYS BMA
Dr Mark Porter, the BMA council chair, said Improving patient care must be the number one priority for these plans... READ MORE›
NHS HEAD DISPUTES THERESA MAY CLAIMS OVER HEALTH FUNDING
Simon Stevens told MPs that the NHS would receive an additional ?8bn between now and 2020-21, not the ?10bn extra the prime minister said... READ MORE›
193,000 NHS PATIENTS A MONTH WAITING BEYOND TARGET TIME FOR SURGERY
Some NHS hospital trusts are leaving notably large proportions of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for certain forms of surgery... READ MORE›
JEREMY HUNT SAYS CHILD MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ARE NHS'S BIGGEST FAILING
Hunt has pledged to improve the diagnosis and treatment of troubled children by NHS children and adolescent mental health services CAMHS ... READ MORE›
INVITING DONALD TRUMP ON A STATE VISIT TO BRITAIN IS A 'NO BRAINER AND IN THE UKS 'NATIONAL INTEREST', A FORMER CONSERVATIVE MINISTER AND HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER SAYS
As for Donald Trump addressing MPs in Parliament, that was an honour reserved for people like Nelson Mandela... READ MORE›
LABOUR REQUESTS INQUIRY INTO THERESA MAY'S ?10BN FOR NHS CLAIM
How much extra money is the government really giving the nhs?... READ MORE›
'I RANG TO REPORT A A?6,900 SCAM, BUT TSB SAID ITS FRAUD TEAM WAS BUSY'
And, in a bid to drive up the amount of money recouped from overseas visitors, the Government is preparing a further crackdown... READ MORE›
NHS HIRES UP TO 3,000 FOREIGN-TRAINED DOCTORS IN A YEAR TO PLUG STAFF SHORTAGE
Dr David Rosser, medical director of University hospitals Birmingham, one of England's biggest trusts, said The NHS doesn't have the number of doctors it needs... READ MORE›
A&E WAITING TIMES IN ENGLAND IMPROVE
The target is being missed in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales - with the latter seeing the worst waits since the current way of measuring it began in 2009... READ MORE›
LABOUR DEFENDS JUNIOR DOCTORS AGAINST 'MILITANT AND OVERPAID' PORTRAYAL
Junior doctors planning five-day strikes are not unreasonable, militant or overpaid, despite what government propaganda suggests, Labour has said... READ MORE›
NHS 'BEDBLOCKING' RISES FOR SIXTH MONTH IN A ROW
An NHS England spokesman said Patients who are well enough to leave hospital should be able to do so at the earliest opportunity... READ MORE›
NUMBER OF URGENT OPERATIONS CANCELLED IN ENGLAND HITS RECORD HIGH
NHS cancelled 446 urgent operations in November, almost double the number in the same month last year... READ MORE›
NHS HOSPITALS FACING TOUGHEST WINTER YET, SAY HEALTH EXPERTS
Increasingly, hospitals have systems in place to direct patients to the best NHS service... READ MORE›
PHILIP HAMMOND MISTAKEN ON SOCIAL CARE FUNDING - SENIOR TORY
Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell 'very disappointed' chancellor dismissed calls for extra funding in autumn statement... READ MORE›
NHS PLAN TO SHUT CHILD HEART SURGERY UNITS CAUSES OUTCRY
NHS England defied as it seeks to boost surgeons' skills with bigger pool of patients at fewer sites, shutting Royal Brompton, Leicester and Manchester units... READ MORE›
'FOREIGN DOCTORS, COMING OVER HERE, WORKING ALL HOURS AND CURING THE SICK.'
The health service currently relies heavily on non-British doctors, who make up 25 percent of our medical workforce... READ MORE›
SEVEN-DAY NHS PLAN COULD LEAD TO BIG STAFF SHORTAGES, SAYS PAY REVIEW
The real barriers to a safe seven-day NHS are underfunding, understaffing and lack of employee involvement... READ MORE›
UK JUNIOR DOCTORS MAY FOLLOW APRIL STRIKES WITH INDEFINITE WALKOUT
Junior doctors are considering indefinite walkout if next week's strikes do not force the health secretary to reopen talks over imposed contract, emails show... READ MORE›
NHS HASN'T IMPROVED ENOUGH SINCE MID STAFFS, SAYS INQUIRY LAWYER
They said the shocking waste of surgeons' time was partly down to the lack of social care for elderly patients outside hospitals... READ MORE›