Victoria Macdonald , Health and Social Care Editor

The families and former patients of a mental health unit in Teesside say they were left without support when it was forced to shut down over safety concerns.

The UK’s medicines watchdog has approved a groundbreaking gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease – which could transform the lives of thousands of people with the debilitating blood disorder. 

The number of people waiting for hospital treatment in England has hit another record high, with the backlog for treatment now standing at 7.8 million. That backlog has increased every month since January – when the prime minister promised to reduce it.

People with autism and learning difficulties should be moved from institutions into the community, the government promised a decade ago.

Campaigners and senior politicians are angry that the government appears to have shelved long-promised legislation to modernise the Mental Health Act. They’d been calling for a new law to outlaw inappropriate detention of people with learning disabilities. A white paper was published nearly three years ago.

Mental health patients in crisis are spending days and days in England’s emergency departments before getting appropriate care. 

Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub was one of the world’s leading heart surgeons.

NHS waiting lists in England have hit an all-time high, according to the latest figures. And the number of waits over 65 weeks for specialist clinical care or surgery rose by nearly 13,000 – the biggest monthly increase in over two years.

Channel 4 News has exclusive polling that reveals why so many midwives plan to leave a service that’s already in crisis.

It’s no coincidence that the next three days of the Conservative Party Conference will also see the biggest walkout by NHS doctors in history.

Now this year has been marked by repeated strike action across the UK: today it was England’s NHS consultants walking out again. 

In January, Rishi Sunak pledged to cut the NHS care backlog in England – promising ‘lists will fall and people will get the care they need more quickly’. 

Police forces say they’re spending too much time with people in crisis who’d be better off being cared for by mental health professionals. That led  Humberside Police to develop a scheme called Right Care Right Person, which triages calls to the appropriate services. The government wants to roll it out nationwide – but mental health…

People in care homes in England started receiving their Covid boosters today – a month earlier than planned following the spread of a new variant.

For the first time in NHS history, junior doctors and consultants in England are to go on strike at the same time. The move, confirmed this afternoon by the BMA, is a major escalation in their long-running dispute with the government over pay.