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Patient log jam in hospital? Send for the Red Cross
An NHS hospital has called in the Red Cross to help with what is rather pejoratively called bed blocking.
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Before he was arrested in 1998, GP Harold Shipman was able to kill 215 people, yet changes recommended to stop this ever happening again are still not in force. Critics say the delay is “apalling”.
An NHS hospital has called in the Red Cross to help with what is rather pejoratively called bed blocking.
Is the coalition to blame for England’s A&E woes? How do things look in the rest of the UK – and the rest of the world?
Screening measures for Ebola are to be reviewed after a health worker was found to have the virus having flown on from Heathrow after repeated tests.
Nurse Pauline Cafferkey is transferred to London’s Royal Free hospital to be treated for Ebola, as two more people are tested for the disease in Truro and Aberdeen.
Participants in the 100,000 Genomes Project will share genetic codes and medical records with drugs companies and researchers in the hope of finding effective treatments for cancer and rare diseases.
Ambulance waiting times in England could be lengthened from eight to 19 minutes in some cases, a leaked NHS memo reveals.
Today’s report on the care of people with learning disabilities in England is full of horrible words and phrases like “stakeholder” – a shame, because it’s important.
Ten are dead in India and dozens in hospital after a mass sterilisation. But in a country where people are paid to be sterilised, deaths from this sort of surgery are nothing new.
A new poll for Channel 4 News reveals why young people are drinking less, how one in four would rather be online than in the pub – and why their grandparents drink twice as often as them.
With a nationwide donor shortage and increasing demand for sperm, the directors of the new national sperm bank in Birmingham say it will “revolutionise access to donor sperm”.
A London health report recommends banning smoking in parks. Is this a logical next step in the campaign to stop smoking, or an unjustified attack on personal freedom?
A British man suspected of contracting Ebola has died in Macedonia as Downing Street announces “enhanced screening” at Heathrow and Gatwick airports and Eurostar train terminals.
Thousands of patients could be without a GP as recruitment numbers lag far behind demand – and upcoming retirements won’t help either.
Midwives in England vote to go on strike for four hours in a bitter dispute with the government over pay. It will be the first walkout in their history.