The spread of the potentially deadly infection comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the trolley crisis, which has led to little space between patients... READ MORE›
Senior doctors have taken the unprecedented move of writing to Theresa May, warning that winter pressures mean some patients are dying prematurely... READ MORE›
30.0 percent of patients that attended a type 1 major A E department required admission to hospital, which compares to 28.7 percent for the same month last year... READ MORE›
National Health Service officials recommended that hospitals cancel non-urgent appointments and operations in January to free up space for the sickest patients... READ MORE›
Dr Nick Scriven, president of the Society for Acute Medicine SAM, said many hospitals reported more than 99 percent capacity in the week before Christmas... READ MORE›
NHS England said hospitals were generally coping, with overall bed occupancy levels down from 95 percent in the lead-up to Christmas to about 93 percent ... READ MORE›
A total of 95,392 patients arrived by ambulance at hospital emergency departments in England last week... READ MORE›
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›
Patients at the centre of the probe are from the hospital's catchment area including Kerry, North Cork and Limerick... READ MORE›
The task at the NHS Ideas Lab hackathon was to find 21st-century solutions to problems facing patients, doctors and the NHS... READ MORE›
As cold snap adds to pressure, Worcestershire trust is forced to divert patients from A E at two hospitals... READ MORE›
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›
It has ordered the trust to take immediate action to ensure that x-rays are reviewed by appropriately trained clinicians... READ MORE›
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›
Critics warn that it will leave Walsall's other urgent care centre, at Manor hospital, unable to cope with extra demand... READ MORE›
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›
The next biggest rises were recorded by Yorkshire ambulance service and then North West ambulance service... READ MORE›
He would tell me, a doctor's job is to love his patients and serve his community... READ MORE›
Now we learn detailed proposals for north London involve shocking restrictions on care quality and access for patients... READ MORE›
Senior doctor calls health service 'broken' after deaths of two patients left to wait on trolleys at Worcestershire Royal hospital... READ MORE›
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS trust confirmed the hospital was under pressure... READ MORE›
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›
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›
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›
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 England has quietly launched an inquiry to discover how many patients have been affected... READ MORE›
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›
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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Yet even among Venezuela's failing hospitals, Luis Razetti Hospital in Barcelona has become one of the most notorious... READ MORE›
A reduction of elective hospital activity in the run-up to Christmas is standard practice, and well rehearsed by NHS providers... READ MORE›
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›
Bevan visits Park hospital in Davyhulme, now Trafford general hospital, which becomes known as the birthplace of the NHS ... READ MORE›
The NHS staff there were working flat out to deal with the patients around them... READ MORE›
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›
More patients' lives will be at risk because of long waiting periods, trusts say... READ MORE›
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›
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›
It sets out what steps trusts should take to manage the large numbers of patients... READ MORE›
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›
Dr Mark Porter, the BMA council chair, said Improving patient care must be the number one priority for these plans... READ MORE›
The independent health secretary jeremy hunt orders annual review of avoidable deaths in nhs hospitals 2 hrs ago... READ MORE›
An NHS England spokesman accused 38 Degrees of a rehash of months-old claims ... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Of the 1,788 patients who may have been harmed as a result, 333 have since died... READ MORE›
And, in a bid to drive up the amount of money recouped from overseas visitors, the Government is preparing a further crackdown... READ MORE›
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›
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