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Patients’ dilemma over rise in high-risk organ donations
In the push to boost the number of organ donors in the UK – where donations are among the lowest in Europe – patients are being given organs from smokers, drug users and cancer sufferers.
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In the push to boost the number of organ donors in the UK – where donations are among the lowest in Europe – patients are being given organs from smokers, drug users and cancer sufferers.
What is most surprising about today’s government response to the Francis inquiry is just how many of the recommendations ministers have accepted.
The wilful neglect of patients is to be made a criminal offence under NHS reforms being introduced in the wake of the Mid Staffs and other care scandals.
Two doctors separated by two decades – but their treatment after blowing the whistle on NHS problems shows that little has been learned from the past.
Health groups welcome plans to turn doctors and nurses into “high-flying” managers under a new government scheme but warn that hospital wards mustn’t be left short-staffed.
A major review aimed at introducing a “zero-harm” culture into British hospitals calls for a change in the culture of the NHS.
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham argues that the drop in nurse numbers is behind the failings in NHS care. Is he right that numbers are “dangerously low”? FactCheck dons its rubber gloves.
Conservative and Labour politicians exchange verbal blows as they blame each other for major failings in 11 hospital foundation trusts, as identified in a report by NHS England’s medical director.
NHS bosses warn the system’s future depends on radical changes. So they are asking us what we think. But will they listen to our answers?
The father of baby Joshua Titcombe, who died in hospital, tells Channel 4 News he felt physically sick on learning that Cynthia Bower ordered the CQC failings cover-up and calls for a wider inquiry.
After Mid-Staffs, Sir David Nicholson must have known his resignation as head of the NHS was inevitable.
The government lays out proposals for tighter controls on immigration in the Queen’s speech. But critics will focus on what has been left out of the coalition’s plans.
Children’s heart surgery is set to resume at Leeds General Infirmary, hospital bosses says, ending days of uncertainty over its future.
The NHS and care services are fuelling malnutrition by settling for “inadequate standards” that are putting patients – especially the elderly – in danger, a leading nutritionist warns.
In the government’s response to the Mid-Staffordshire inquiry report hospitals and care homes will have to inform people if they believe treatment of care has caused death or serious injury.