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REVEALED: HIDDEN TOLL OF AMBULANCE DELAYS AT A&E PUTS LIVES AT RISK
Similarly, 2,485 72 percent of the 3,443 handovers at Royal Blackburn hospital in December flouted NHS rules... READ MORE›
NHS ENGLAND'S TOP PARAMEDICS GAIN RIGHT TO PRESCRIBE MEDICINES
Rather, they will be able to start treatment without delay, which for some will be critical, said Rachel Power, the chief executive of the Patients Association... READ MORE›
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'IT WAS MANIC': PATIENTS DESCRIBE MELTDOWN AT WORCESTERSHIRE HOSPITAL
Senior doctor calls health service 'broken' after deaths of two patients left to wait on trolleys at Worcestershire Royal hospital... READ MORE›
THREE PATIENTS DIE AT WORCESTERSHIRE HOSPITAL AMID NHS WINTER CRISIS
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS trust confirmed the hospital was under pressure... READ MORE›
MAY'S SCAPEGOAT ATTEMPT COULD SPARK MASS RESIGNATIONS, SAYS TOP GP
Dr Kailash Chand says GPs are rightly angry at government effort to shift blame for NHS crisis on to them with seven-day threat... READ MORE›
RURAL HOSPITALS IN CRITICAL CONDITION
The closings threaten to decimate a network of rural hospitals the federal government first established beginning in the late 1940s to ensure that no one would be without health care... READ MORE›
A&E NEEDS TOTAL SYSTEM OVERHAUL IF IT'S TO COPE, SAYS HOSPITAL WHICH REVOLUTIONISED ITS EMERGENCY CARE
But it's par for the course at the A E unit hailed by health secretary Jeremy Hunt as an inspiration to emergency departments throughout the country... READ MORE›
A&E UNITS, GP SURGERIES AND WALK-IN CENTRES TO CLOSE AS CASH CRISIS BITES
Critics warn that it will leave Walsall's other urgent care centre, at Manor hospital, unable to cope with extra demand... READ MORE›
HOSPITAL BOSSES FORCED TO CHANT 'WE CAN DO THIS' OVER A&E TARGETS
Trust leaders say they were left feeling 'bullied and humiliated' by the incident at a meeting to improve performance... READ MORE›
DYING INFANTS AND NO MEDICINE INSIDE VENEZUELAS FAILING HOSPITALS
Yet even among Venezuela's failing hospitals, Luis Razetti Hospital in Barcelona has become one of the most notorious... READ MORE›
THE WOMEN TIPPED TO MAKE IT IN 'A MAN'S WORLD'
Photo Dr Zeldovich specialises in high-risk surgeries in her work at the Sydney Eye Hospital... READ MORE›
'MY FRAIL MUM WAS FORCED TO WAIT ON THE FLOOR FOR EIGHT HOURS'
The NHS staff there were working flat out to deal with the patients around them... READ MORE›
AREAS OF NHS WILL IMPLODE THIS WINTER, EXPERT WARNS
Data from NHS England for the summer also showed hospitals are missing key targets for cancer cases, routine operations and ambulance response times... READ MORE›
HOSPITALS ATTACK BARKING MAD NHS TARGET TO MANAGE WINTER CRISIS
Given that hospitals are underbedded and underfunded, and emergency departments are understaffed, trying to deliver performance in that climate is nigh-on impossible... READ MORE›
BOMBING OF DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL IN YEMEN KILLS AT LEAST 15
Hospitals in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders have been hit by coalition airstrikes at least four times in the country's 17-month war... READ MORE›
MORE PATIENTS WAITING TOO LONG IN A&E DESPITE IT BEING NHS PRIORITY
NHS ambulance services yet again breached response time targets, which require them to reach 75 percent of the most seriously ill patients within eight minutes... READ MORE›
LENGTHY WAITS TO SEE GPS MAY POSE SERIOUS RISK TO PATIENTS, SAYS TOP DOCTOR
People with non-urgent conditions may be neglected amid long waiting times, leading to acute problems, warns head of GPs' body... READ MORE›
1 CRITICALLY HURT BY CRASH INVOLVING SCHOOL BUS, CRANE
Thursday at McCordick Road and Roger Stevens Drive, west of North Gower... READ MORE›
FEARS OF NHS WINTER CRISIS AFTER MAJOR INCIDENT AT COLCHESTER HOSPITAL
Initially, the hospital said the CQC concerns related to the large number of patients entering the hospital through A E... READ MORE›
20 HOSPITALS DECLARE BLACK ALERT AS PATIENT SAFETY NO LONGER ASSURED
Nhs crisis 20 hospitals declare black alert as patient safety no longer assured... READ MORE›
A&E FACES WORST WINTER EVER, TOP DOCTOR WARNS
The NHS in England only narrowly avoided collapsing last winter, Mann said... READ MORE›
MAKING NHS SEVEN-DAY SERVICE COULD THREATEN PATIENTS SAFETY, SAY DOCTORS
Making nhs seven-day service could threaten patients safety say doctors... READ MORE›
PEDESTRIAN IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BEING HIT BY TRUCK IN VANIER
Ottawa paramedics say a woman in her 80s was rushed to hospital with a critical head injury after she was hit by the truck... READ MORE›
BRITISH HOSPITALS RACE TO REVIVE COMPUTERS
British Patients Reel as Hospitals Race to Revive Computer Systems... READ MORE›
NHS EMERGENCY CARE ON WOBBLY LEGS
Ambulance crew bring a new patient to an NHS A E ward... READ MORE›
A&E DEPARTMENTS MISS PATIENT TARGET FOR 20TH WEEK IN A ROW
There have also been small increases in reported incidents of diarrhoea and vomiting in hospitals, although these are at similar levels to previous years... READ MORE›
CHINESE NEWBORN BOY PRONOUNCED DEAD WAKES UP CRYING MOMENTS BEFORE HE WAS DUE TO BE CREMATED
The paediatrician, Dr Chen Shuanghua, declared that the baby was not breathing and there was no heartbeat... READ MORE›
EAST SUSSEX NHS TRUST IN SPECIAL MEASURES AFTER CQC INSPECTION
East Sussex healthcare NHS trust has been formally placed into special measures after a critical report by the Care Quality Commission earlier this week... READ MORE›
EMERGENCY CARE SHOCK: PATIENTS HIT WITH SURPRISE OUT-OF-NETWORK BILLS
While the insurance company sometimes pays the higher amount, unlucky patients like Moore can be caught in the crossfire... READ MORE›
MAN SHOT SEVERAL TIMES, LEFT CRITICALLY INJURED IN ORLEANS
When paramedics arrived the victim was given advanced care treatment and was rushed to The Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus trauma unit... READ MORE›
CYCLIST, 79, IN SERIOUS CONDITION AFTER HE WAS HIT BY GARBAGE TRUCK
The collision happened near Kanata Avenue and Knudson Drive just after 7 15 a.m., Ottawa paramedics said... READ MORE›
WORKER AT OLD CARP ROAD SITE IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER FALL FROM ROOF
The man was then transported in critical condition to the trauma centre at the Ottawa Hospital... READ MORE›