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U.K. EMERGENCY UNITS NEARLY BACK TO NORMAL AFTER CYBERATTACK
Patients are no longer being diverted away from hospital accident and emergency units, Anne Rainsberry, NHS England's national incident director, said in a statement... READ MORE›
ENGLAND'S EMERGENCY UNITS OPEN 'AS NORMAL' AGAIN AFTER CYBER ATTACK
Patients are no longer being diverted away from hospital accident and emergency units, Anne Rainsberry, NHS England's national incident director, said in a statement... READ MORE›
NHS CANCER PATIENTS HIT BY TREATMENT DELAYS AFTER CYBER-ATTACK
One is Barts health NHS trust, which operates five hospitals in London... 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›
ALMOST UNTREATABLE CPE POSES SERIOUS THREAT TO PATIENTS DOCTORS WARN
In Manchester and London, dealing with CPE has cost NHS trusts almost ?10m... 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›
RATIONING RULES RESTRICTING SURGERY TO THOSE IN MOST PAIN MUST BE AXED, NHS OFFICIALS RULEA
Patients are left wondering about the validity of restrictions to other types of surgery and NHS treatment, she said... 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›
OVER 60% OF NHS TRUSTS IN ENGLAND 'ISSUED HIGH-LEVEL ALERTS THIS WINTER'
The hospital trusts reporting the greatest strain include Salisbury NHS foundation trust, with 47 alerts, six of which were the highest escalation level... READ MORE›
NHS ENGLAND CHIEF BRINGS IN NEW RULES ON WARD BED CLOSURES
Stevens is introducing tough rules for hospitals concerning bed closures from April to ensure that patient care does not suffer... READ MORE›
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VIRGIN CARE WINS ?700M CONTRACT TO RUN 200 NHS AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES
Virgin Care has been handed the contract by both Bath and North East Somerset NHS clinical commissioning group and Conservative-led Bath and North East Somerset council... 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›
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›
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›
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›
'LETHAL FAILURES' LED TO BABY DEATHS
Into Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust found 20 major failures in care from 2004 to 2013 at Furness General Hospital... 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›
193,000 NHS PATIENTS A MONTH WAITING BEYOND TARGET TIME FOR SURGERY
Some NHS hospital trusts are leaving notably large proportions of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for certain forms of surgery... 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›
NHS HIRES UP TO 3,000 FOREIGN-TRAINED DOCTORS IN A YEAR TO PLUG STAFF SHORTAGE
Dr David Rosser, medical director of University hospitals Birmingham, one of England's biggest trusts, said The NHS doesn't have the number of doctors it needs... 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›
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 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›
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›
EYE OPS WERE 'PAINFUL' AND 'RUSHED'
Ophthalmology staff voiced concerns but operations continued, the report says... READ MORE›
ALMOST 80% OF JUNIOR DOCTORS TOOK PART IN ALL-OUT STRIKE, NHS SAYS
However, 16 of the 22 junior doctors in its emergency department did work as normal... READ MORE›
NHS PLAN TO SHUT CHILD HEART SURGERY UNITS CAUSES OUTCRY
NHS England defied as it seeks to boost surgeons' skills with bigger pool of patients at fewer sites, shutting Royal Brompton, Leicester and Manchester units... READ MORE›
NHS CAN SAVE BILLIONS WITH SMALL RISE IN SPENDING ON GPS, SAY RESEARCHERS
It would be economically illiterate to ignore the savings that would come from increased investment in general practice, she said... 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›
NHS TEACHING TRUST TO GO INTO SPECIAL MEASURES AFTER INADEQUATE RATING
NHS teaching trust to go into special measures after inadequate rating... 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›
A&E DEPARTMENTS MISS PATIENT TARGET FOR 20TH WEEK IN A ROW
There have also been small increases in reported incidents of diarrhoea and vomiting in hospitals, although these are at similar levels to previous years... READ MORE›
EAST SUSSEX NHS TRUST IN SPECIAL MEASURES AFTER CQC INSPECTION
East Sussex healthcare NHS trust has been formally placed into special measures after a critical report by the Care Quality Commission earlier this week... READ MORE›
NHS CREAKING AT SEAMS AS A&E DELAYS PRESSURISE OTHER HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS
Patients having to wait longer for cancer treatment and planned operations, minsters are warned by Kings Fund thinktank... READ MORE›
MPS ATTACK OFFICIALS OVER HINCHINGBROOKE PRIVATISATION "DEBACLE"
MPs on the committee are investigating if the public lost out when the NHS decided to franchise a district general hospital... READ MORE›
TOP DOCTOR SAYS GEORGE OSBORNE SHOULD STOP PENNY-PINCHING FROM GPS
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, head of the British Medical Association's general practice committee, said patients were being short-changed on a daily basis ... READ MORE›
LONDON AT BOTTOM OF CANCER TABLE
Eight of London's NHS trusts score in the bottom 10 of a patient-experience league table... READ MORE›