There is nothing more focusing of the mind than caring for a sick patient who arrives in your A&E. For those first few moments, standing by the bedside, you enter the patient zone, where everything outside it becomes a blur, writes Saleyha Ahsan.
The NHS is in crisis. But are regions with large migrant populations suffering more? FactCheck takes a look.
Jeremy Hunt said that A&E departments are treating more people in under four hours than they were seven years ago. But he didn’t mention that the number of people waiting more than four hours has gone up too – by 600 per cent.
The government says it wants most hospital doctors on seven-day contracts by the end of this parliament, claiming thousands of patients are dying unnecessarily thanks to lack of weekend cover. The British Medical Association says its members welcome a seven-day NHS, but it wants to know how ministers propose to pay for the extra hours. The…
All the main parties say the NHS will be safe in their hands. But how will they plug what experts say is a £30bn funding gap?
Figures released by Labour this week seem to suggest the very oldest are being rushed to hospital by ambulance in massively increased numbers – but the figures are flawed.
A Conservative MP has suggested that mass immigration from eastern Europe has helped pile the pressure on accident and emergency wards. FactCheck sharpens its scalpel.
Can accident and emergency departments really be hitting their targets if the system is in danger of meltdown? FactCheck finds out.