The number of flu patients in hospital in England is nearly five times the figure at the start of last month. NHS England has ...

Four of the UK’s worst-ranking hospitals for ambulance handovers are based in the South West. Truro’s Royal Cornwall Hospital, Swindon’s Great Western Hospitals, the Royal United Hospitals in Bath and ...

The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust launched the free transport service for staff, patients and visitors in 2007. It runs between the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (RBTH), Burnley General ...

One of England’s largest hospital trusts has ordered an independent review of its international medical training programmes because of concerns, first highlighted in The BMJ , that overseas doctors ...

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust had a total of 313 patients with an ambulance handover delay of ...

Another Merseyside hospital has declared a critical incident as the crisis in Accident and Emergency continues to grip the ...

A Welsh health board may ask the NHS in England to delay the care it gives to patients living in Wales to save money. It ...

The covid-19 pandemic and the recent cost-of-living crisis have substantially exacerbated pre-existing inequalities in health and social care in the UK.1 Marginalised populations are ...

Last week's data, broken down by hospital trust, has revealed the proportion of ambulance patients waiting for more than 30 ...

The waiting area of a new £58m emergency department (ED) is "too small", patients have told the BBC The building at Queen ...

A powerful ‘designer drug’ which is secretly mixed with heroin or passed off as ketamine is killing users, as a coroner warns ...

Medical experts have called for face masks to be brought back as more than 200 people are in hospital with flu and 5,000 new cases were recorded in just one week ...