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CALIFORNIA PSYCH WARD EVACUATED AS WILDFIRE DRAWS NEAR
Vista del Mar Hospital, along with about 10 other structures in the area, later burned to the ground... READ MORE›
CVS EYES MAJOR EXPANSION OF HEALTH CLINICS WITH AETNA DEAL
Exclusive CVS eyes major expansion of health clinics with Aetna deal... READ MORE›
CANCER X-RAY SERVICES TO BE REVIEWED AFTER SERIOUS DIAGNOSTIC FAILURES
It has ordered the trust to take immediate action to ensure that x-rays are reviewed by appropriately trained clinicians... 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›
CABBY'S TIP LEADS TO CAPTURE OF DANGEROUS HAWAII PSYCHOPATH WHO FLED TO CALIFORNIA
A man acquitted of a 1979 murder by reason of insanity who escaped from a Hawaii psychiatric hospital over the weekend was arrested in California on Wednes... 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›
DELHI'S 'GAS CHAMBER' IS TRIGGERING A HEALTH CRISIS
Air Quality Index AQI recordings have consistently hit the maximum of 999... READ MORE›
NUMBER OF NHS PATIENTS WAITING OVER SIX MONTHS FOR SURGERY UP 40%
Number of NHS patients waiting over six months for surgery up 40 percent... READ MORE›
'ANY TABOO HAS GONE': NETHERLANDS SEES RISE IN DEMAND FOR EUTHANASIA
Doctors at the clinic euthanised 32 patients in 2012, but it will help 720 people to die by the end of this year... READ MORE›
A PARALYSED CHILD FROM INDIA'S 45-DAY JOURNEY FOR SURGERY
Hospital after hospital Mr Walvi said Ravita spent 10 days in Nandurbar but she didn't get better... 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›
PATIENTS WAITING AT LEAST AN HOUR IN AMBULANCES DOUBLE IN TWO YEARS
The next biggest rises were recorded by Yorkshire ambulance service and then North West ambulance service... READ MORE›
A&E WAIT TIMES OF MORE THAN FOUR HOURS TO AFFECT A MILLION MORE PEOPLE
This could exceed 400,000 by 2020, meaning more than a fifth of patients attending emergency wards waiting more than four hours... READ MORE›
CVS-AETNA DEAL COULD MEAN END OF ERA IN HOW DRUGS ARE PAID FOR
A merger of CVS and Aetna would create a health-care behemoth and put huge pressure on standalone players such as Express Scripts Holding Co... READ MORE›
CHINA'S 'BAREFOOT' AFRICAN DOCTOR TO TAKE TCM TO AFRICA[1]
He would tell me, a doctor's job is to love his patients and serve his community... READ MORE›
HIGHMARK'S ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK ANNOUNCES $1B EXPANSION
Highmark Health had previously announced 315 million it's spending on a new cancer institute at its flagship Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, and facilities in Erie... READ MORE›
IRISH REPUBLIC AND NORTHERN IRELAND ON LOCK DOWN FOR STORM OPHELIA
The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for Northern Ireland and warned of potential danger to life ... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA BEHIND WANNACRY ATTACK WHICH CRIPPLED THE NHS AFTER STEALING US CYBER WEAPONS, MICROSOFT CHIEF CLAIMS
North Korea was behind the WannaCry attack which crippled the NHS after stealing US cyber weapons,the head of Microsoft has claimed... READ MORE›
DOCTOR FORCED TO TAKE ACTING CLASSES IN ATTEMPT TO PASS 'RACIST' TEST
A Middle Eastern doctor working in Sydney says a test to qualify as an emergency specialist consultant is discriminatory ... READ MORE›
GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL 'FAILING' INTERSEX PATIENTS
It also claimed that operations were taking place on intersex patients at Gosh without first discussing their cases with an expert panel at the hospital... READ MORE›
CHAOS AND A TRAIL OF BLOOD AS NURSING AIDE HELPED LAS VEGAS MASSACRE VICTIMS
Sunrise Hospital treated 200 of the victims. Others received care at affiliated community hospitals and Las Vegas' University Medical Center... READ MORE›
SAFE ZONES FOR ABORTION CLINICS COULD APPLY TO PHARMACIES, MEDICAL CLINICS
Other facilities that provide abortion services, like hospitals, health centres and pharmacies, would be able to apply to get safe access zones, said Naqvi... READ MORE›
THE INDIAN FARMERS FALLING PREY TO PESTICIDE
At least 50 farmers have died from suspected pesticide poisoning in Maharashtra since July, according to officials and media reports... READ MORE›
PATIENTS LEFT IN DARK AS DOCTORS DEPART DOWNTOWN CLINIC
- Letter to patients from clinic owners Chantal and James Dumont Their decision is incomprehensible to us, the Dumonts wrote... READ MORE›
ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL PUT IN SPECIAL MEASURES AFTER PATIENT DEATHS
During this inspection and in our previous visits to the Royal Cornwall hospital we have found persistent evidence of care that falls below those standards... READ MORE›
COMPLEX RECOVERY AWAITS THOSE INJURED IN LAS VEGAS ATTACK
Years, said Dr. Thomas Scalea, physician-in-chief at the University of Maryland's Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, one of the nation's largest trauma centers... READ MORE›
CHESHIRE HOSPITAL STOPS SPINAL SURGERY AFTER 'SERIOUS INCIDENTS'
Spinal operations will not resume at Warrington and Halton hospitals NHS foundation trust in Cheshire until an external investigation into surgical practice has finished... READ MORE›
NO RIDE HOME, NO KIDNEY STONE SURGERY, OTTAWA MAN TOLD
But a surgeon at the General campus of the Ottawa Hospital took a different view... READ MORE›
STROKE PATIENTS IN WALES COULD DIE BECAUSE THROMBECTOMY NOT AVAILABLE
Twenty stroke patients from Wales have undergone coiling since May in hospitals in Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, Plymouth and Southampton... READ MORE›
PRIVATE AMBULANCE FIRM CONTRACTED BY THE NHS GOES INTO ADMINISTRATION
Private Ambulance Service has been serving hospitals such as Watford General, St Albans hospital and Bedford hospital... READ MORE›
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PITBULL SENDS PRIVATE PLANE TO PUERTO RICO TO TRANSPORT CANCER PATIENTS
Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico in ruins, with mass power outages and almost half the residents without drinking water... READ MORE›
LEAK SHOWS 'DEVASTATING' IMPACT OF PLANNED NHS CUTS IN LONDON
Now we learn detailed proposals for north London involve shocking restrictions on care quality and access for patients... 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›
'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›
CRIMINAL PROBE OPENED INTO 8 HEAT-RELATED DEATHS AT FLORIDA NURSING HOME
Criminal probe opened into 8 heat-related deaths at Florida nursing home... 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›
NHS INTENSIVE CARE 'AT ITS LIMITS' BECAUSE OF STAFF SHORTAGES
Fifty-two nhs hospitals sent patients elsewhere in busiest week yet... READ MORE›
NHS WAITING TIMES 'DRIVING PEOPLE TO TURN TO PRIVATE TREATMENT'
The findings come as health service bosses gather in Manchester for the opening of NHS England's annual two-day NHS Expo... READ MORE›
NHS ACCUSED OF COVERING UP HUGE DATA LOSS THAT PUT THOUSANDS AT RISK
NHS England has quietly launched an inquiry to discover how many patients have been affected... 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›
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›
BEST CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS RANKED BY U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Here's a look at the report's top children's hospitals across the country U.S. News Honor Roll 1... READ MORE›
DESPERATE MEASURES: FAMILIES OF DRUG-ADDICTED TEENS RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS
Friend's overdose sparked relapse Paige O'Leary said her latest relapse began when a friend overdosed and wound up in hospital... READ MORE›
NHS NURSES ARE TOO BUSY TO CARE FOR PATIENTS PROPERLY, RESEARCH SHOWS
Survey of 30,000 nurses finds 53 percent fear quality of care is suffering, and some patients are being left to die alone... READ MORE›
NHS WORKERS URGED TO BE ALERT FOR SEPSIS AND TREAT WITHIN AN HOUR
This quality standard highlights priorities in the continued fight to improve sepsis care... READ MORE›
'I WAS THE FIRST BABY DELIVERED BY THE NHS. IT HAS SAVED MY LIFE EIGHT TIMES'
Bevan visits Park hospital in Davyhulme, now Trafford general hospital, which becomes known as the birthplace of the NHS ... READ MORE›
'MY SON DIDN'T WANT TO DIE'
Each time Derek was admitted to hospital I always made an appointment to meet his team and to discuss his treatment, she said... READ MORE›
MANITOBA MAN STUCK WITH $118K IN MEDICAL BILLS AFTER EMERGENCY TREATMENT IN U.S.
About 850 Manitobans access emergency services through those Minnesota hospitals every year, according to the province... READ MORE›
JEREMY HUNT DENIES RED CROSS CLAIM OF NHS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
I don't want to pretend that we haven't, at this most difficult time of year for the NHS, had some very serious problems in some hospitals... 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›
NHS 'WILL FAIL' THIS WINTER WITHOUT CASH INJECTION, DOCTORS TELL THERESA MAY
Hospital doctors have warned Theresa May that the NHS will fail this winter and patient care will suffer unless she provides an emergency cash injection... READ MORE›
VENEZUELANS ARE FLEEING TO BRAZIL FOR MEDICAL CARE OVERWHELMING ITS HOSPITALS AND MORGUES
A spiraling economic crisis and hyperinflation have cleaned Venezuelan hospitals of needles, bandages and medicine... READ MORE›
HOSPITALS ARE IN STATE OF 'WAR', UK GOVERNMENT ADVISER SAYS
The percentage of patients given hospital treatment within 18 weeks has also fallen below 90 percent for the first time since March 2011... READ MORE›
NHS WARNS OF 'DANGEROUS' BEDS SHORTAGE THIS WINTER
More patients' lives will be at risk because of long waiting periods, trusts say... READ MORE›
SERIOUS MISTAKES IN NHS PATIENT CARE ARE ON THE RISE, FIGURES REVEAL
We have long warned that underfunding and staff shortages within the NHS will impact on patient safety... READ MORE›
'NURSES LIKE ME WILL BE PROMISED THE WORLD TO RETURN TO IRELAND BUT WE KNOW THOSE PROMISES WON'T BE KEPT'
She went to work in London in January 2015, having qualified as a general nurse and she said she has no regrets ... READ MORE›
40% OF HOSPITALS ISSUE ALERT IN FIRST WEEK OF NEW YEAR
It sets out what steps trusts should take to manage the large numbers of patients... READ MORE›
NHS CHIEFS SOFTEN 'BRUTAL' COST-CUTTING PLAN AFTER HUGE BACKLASH
NHS bosses have been forced to backtrack on controversial plans to impose brutal cost-cutting measures that involved delaying operations, denying patients treatment and closing hospital wards... READ MORE›
CHARLIE GARD: LONDON JUDGE SETS DEADLINE FOR MOVING BABY TO HOSPICE
Charlie Gard London judge sets deadline for moving terminally ill baby to hospice... READ MORE›