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NHS FIGURES SHOW SHARP RISE IN PATIENTS WAITING FOR A&E CARE
A total of 95,392 patients arrived by ambulance at hospital emergency departments in England last week... READ MORE›
EMPLOYEE SUSPENDED AS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL KERRY CONDUCTS REVIEW OF OVER 46,000 FILES
The South SouthWest Group, which covers University Hospital Kerry, confirmed to RTE in a statement that it is investigating patient safety concerns at the hospital... READ MORE›
HOW ONE DOCTOR IN KERRY SPARKED RECALL OF 46,000 SCANS
Patients at the centre of the probe are from the hospital's catchment area including Kerry, North Cork and Limerick... READ MORE›
NHS EXPLORES APPS FOR CARE IN A DIGITAL AGE
The task at the NHS Ideas Lab hackathon was to find 21st-century solutions to problems facing patients, doctors and the NHS... READ MORE›
MAJOR NHS TRUST TURNS AWAY A&E PATIENTS 13 TIMES IN A WEEK
As cold snap adds to pressure, Worcestershire trust is forced to divert patients from A E at two hospitals... READ MORE›
NHS ENGLAND ACCUSED OF HIDING HOSPITALS' WINTER CRISIS ALERT FIGURES
The change in policy emerged on Thursday when NHS England issued the first set of weekly figures showing how hospitals are performing this winter... 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›
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›
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›
NHS DATA LOSS SCANDAL DEEPENS WITH FURTHER 162,000 FILES MISSING
SBS was then obstructive and unhelpful to NHS England in the inquiry it then instigated, the NAO found... 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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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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›
'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›
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›
SHOCK FIGURES SHOW TORY PLANS ARE 'MAKING SOCIAL CARE WORSE'
Under the Better Care Fund councils receive money, mainly from the NHS budget, in return for introducing schemes to reduce demand for hospital care... 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›
HOSPITAL DECLARES 'MAJOR INCIDENT'
Related Stories Colchester Hospital has declared a major incident following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission CQC ... READ MORE›
HOSPITALS IN ENGLAND TOLD TO PUT OPERATIONS ON HOLD TO FREE UP BEDS
A reduction of elective hospital activity in the run-up to Christmas is standard practice, and well rehearsed by NHS providers... 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 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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
JEREMY HUNT ORDERS YEARLY STUDY OF 'AVOIDABLE' HOSPITAL DEATHS
The independent health secretary jeremy hunt orders annual review of avoidable deaths in nhs hospitals 2 hrs ago... READ MORE›
NHS ACCUSED OF KEEPING SECRET ITS PLANS TO CUT SERVICES
An NHS England spokesman accused 38 Degrees of a rehash of months-old claims ... 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›
HUNDREDS OF PATIENTS POTENTIALLY HARMED BY UNDELIVERED NHS MAIL
Of the 1,788 patients who may have been harmed as a result, 333 have since died... 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›
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›
KUNDUZ HOSPITAL ATTACK: HOW A US MILITARY MISTAKE LEFT 22 DEAD
There were 80 staff and 105 patients in the hospital buildings at the start of the attack, which lasted from 2.08am to 3.15am... 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›
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›
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›
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›
HOSPITALS 'DANGEROUSLY FULL' DURING WINTER CRISIS, SAYS THINKTANK
Dr Tracey Batten quit on Thursday as chief executive of Imperial College healthcare NHS trust, which runs five hospitals in central and west London... READ MORE›
HOSPITAL MADE PATIENTS 'WAIT TWO MONTHS TO HAVE THEIR HAIR WASHED'
NHS watchdog's report details series of problems found during unannounced visit to Queen Elizabeth hospital in Woolwich... READ MORE›