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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›
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›
WHICH COUNTRY HAS THE WORLD'S BEST HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?
Treatment in public hospitals is completely covered by Medicare, though people with private health insurance often elect to use private hospitals... 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›
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›
'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›
HOSPITALS CANCELLED RECORD NUMBER OF URGENT OPERATIONS LAST YEAR
Hospitals in England cancelled 4,093 urgent procedures during 2016, equivalent to 341 per month... 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›
AMERICAN HOSPITALS ARE DISAPPEARING
One of the beneficiaries is Westchester Medical Center Health Network, which bought the former Kingston hospital in March... 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›
BETTER THAN PRISON: LIFE INSIDE THE UK'S SECURE HOSPITALS
As soon as a person's mental health is stabilised, things should change... 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›
THE NHS CALLS FOR AN EXTRA A?8BN BY 2020 IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD ITS SERVICES
NHS bosses are warning that patients may suffer severe consequences unless the health service receives a further increase to its funding... READ MORE›
AMERICAN WELL WILL ALLOW TELEMEDICINE PATIENTS TO PICK THEIR DOCTOR
Other health systems that have worked with American Well to offer telehealth to their patients are also contemplating joining the new marketplace... READ MORE›
CHILD DEATHS IN PRIORY HOSPITALS PROVOKE CALLS TO CANCEL NHS CONTRACT
In January, Priory Group was sold for ?1.3bn by the US private equity firm Advent International to Acadia Healthcare of Tennessee... 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›
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›
'ANY COMPANY WILL DO': QUEBEC DOCTORS USE LOOPHOLE TO SIDESTEP NEW LAW BANNING EXTRA FEES
But RAMQ's spokesperson said, in general, doctors aren't allowed to tell patients to find any registered company and ask them to be billed for services provided... READ MORE›
HOSPITAL A&ES MISS WAITING TIME TARGET AS ADMISSIONS HIT RECORD HIGH
The NHS has ensured there are plans in every area to manage the extra demand, she added... READ MORE›
ALLEGATIONS DISABLED ABORIGINAL WOMAN DIED AFTER BEING TREATED DIFFERENTLY
A coroner wants an investigation into discrimination complaints related to an intellectually disabled Aboriginal woman who died in a Sydney emergency department... READ MORE›
BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN MOVED TO HOSPICE CARE
Despite the great medical care at numerous facilities Bobbi Kristina Brown's condition has continued to deteriorate the statement read... READ MORE›
EBOLA IN TEXAS: NURSES TREATED DISEASE VICTIM 'WITHOUT PROPER PROTECTIVE GEAR' IN HOSPITAL WHERE HAZARDOUS WASTE WAS 'PILED TO CEILING'
Ebola in Texas Nurses treated disease victim 'without proper protective gear' in hospital where hazardous waste was 'piled to ceiling'... READ MORE›
EMPLOYER HAD DONE CHECKS ON KERRY RAPE ACCUSED
Bill Maher, head of the Bons Secours group of hospitals, said he is to receive a report from the company this week... READ MORE›
DYING MAN'S WIFE TOLD HE WAS BLOCKING A BED THAT COULD SAVE A LIFE
The vital tracheotomy surgery was only carried out after Ms Lydon signed the undertaking to bring her husband home from the ICU within days... READ MORE›
DALLAS EBOLA PATIENT AMBER VINSON 'CLEARED TO FLY' BY CDC AFTER REPORTING A TEMPERATURE
Ms Vinson, 29, had been treating Ebola victim Thomas Duncan at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital before flying to Ohio... READ MORE›
WHILE LATIN AMERICA PANICS OVER ZIKA, HAITI FACES EPIDEMIC WITH A SHRUG
After the World Health Organization declared Zika a global health emergency in February, Haiti was tallying 300 infections a week... READ MORE›
20 HOSPITALS DECLARE BLACK ALERT AS PATIENT SAFETY NO LONGER ASSURED
To cope with a surge in demand for care hospitals have been forced to take highly unusual steps, such as cancelling cancer operations... READ MORE›