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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›
'IT'S TERRIBLE - YOU CAN SEE HOW PEOPLE ARE SO FRIGHTENED'
The murder of Mrs Hanrahan, just over a week before Christmas, has had a similarly seismic impact on the communities of Thomondgate and Kileely... 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›
ELDERLY COUPLES IN CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES' PATH DIED IN EACH OTHER'S ARMS
He looked out the window to flames and immediately woke his 72-year-old wife, Lynne Anderson Powell... READ MORE›
THE TORIES ARE IGNORING THE WORSENING CRISES IN SOCIAL CARE, HEALTH AND WELFARE
Faced with the double dilemma of a growing elderly population and chronic underfunding from central government, the social care system in Britain is at breaking point... 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›
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›
HUGE RISE IN HOSPITAL BEDS IN ENGLAND TAKEN UP BY PEOPLE WITH MALNUTRITION
Official figures reveal that people with malnutrition accounted for 184,528 hospital bed days last year, a huge rise on 65,048 in 2006-07... 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›
'GET OFF FACEBOOK FOR 20 MINUTES': POLICE OFFICER PLEADS AFTER ELDERLY COUPLE FOUND DEAD
Police officer tells people to get off Facebook, reach out to elderly after isolated couple found dead... READ MORE›
GREATER MANCHESTER TO CONTROL ?6BN NHS BUDGET
A shadow Greater Manchester Health and Wellbeing board will be appointed, which will work closely with existing clinical commissioning groups of GPs... 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›
JEREMY CORBYN ACCUSES MAY OF SWEETHEART DEAL WITH SURREY COUNCIL
Surrey county council informed the government that they wished to become a pilot area, a DCLG spokesman said... 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›
HOW ROBOTS CAN ENHANCE THE LIVES OF EUROPE'S ELDERLY CITIZENS
How robots can improve the quality of life of elderly people living alone at their homes... READ MORE›
POLLS SHOW UK'S CONSERVATIVES LOSING GROUND AS POLICIES SET OUT
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Conservative's policies would set the young against the old in a war between generations ... 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›
SURREY COUNCIL RECEIVED BOOST IN BUDGET AFTER 'SWEETHEART DEAL' CLAIMS
Labour analysis of new ?2bn for social care suggests rapidly rising share for council said to have struck 'gentleman's agreement' with ministers... 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›
CARE CUTS 'LEAVE OLD HIGH AND DRY'
Hundreds of thousands of older people who need social care are being left high and dry... 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›
ELDERLY PEOPLE WARNED OVER ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION
Experts warned that GPs were less attuned to drinking problems among elderly people... 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›
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›
HOUSE OF LORDS FEARED CHEAP CHAMPAGNE AND VETOED MERGING SERVICES WITH COMMONS
All told, she has been linked by the police and the news media to seven deaths... READ MORE›
IKEA SHANGHAI FROWNS ON ELDERLY DATERS WHO OCCUPY CAFETERIA
Sad news for elderly lonely hearts in Shanghai they can no longer look for love in Ikea... 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›
OLDER WORKERS 'BOOST JOBS FOR YOUNG'
Keeping older people at work can also boost wages for younger employees, argues Ros Altmann, the government-appointed champion for older workers... 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›
COUNCILS PREPARE TO CUT ESSENTIAL SERVICES TO FUND ADULT SOCIAL CARE
They are allowed to raise council tax by almost 2 percent in 2017 18 to fund local services and a further 3 percent specifically for social care... 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›
UNDERFUNDED AND OVERSTRETCHED THE CRISIS IN CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
'It's like being at home, was the verdict that one resident at West Hall, a care home in West Byfleet, relayed to inspectors... READ MORE›