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FIGURES FOR MISSED A&E WAITING TIME TARGETS IN DECEMBER AT RECORD HIGH LEVEL
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›
NHS STAFF: IS YOUR HOSPITAL CONSIDERING CUTS TO CANCER CARE?
A leading hospital in Oxford is delaying chemotherapy for cancer patients due to staff shortages... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | BRITISH HOSPITALS POSTPONE ROUTINE PROCEDURES AS WINTER DEMAND FOR CARE SPIKES
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›
'DESPERATE TIMES' FOR OVERCROWDED HOSPITALS, SENIOR DOCTOR WARNS
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›
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›
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›
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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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
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›
FLIGHT DELAY RULING OPENS WAY FOR COMPENSATION PAYMENTS
Com cannot delay the payment of compensation due to passengers for delayed flights... 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›
DAVID CAMERON TO DELAY PUBLICATION OF IRAQ WAR INQUIRY UNTIL AFTER EU REFERENDUM
It is beyond appalling that the Government should casually extend their misery further by delaying the publication of the Chilcot report... 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›
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›
COMMUTER CLOCKS UP ?1K DELAY CLAIMS
Greater anglia passenger photographs 1 000-worth of train delay vouchers... 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›