PATIENTS have had organs wrongly removed, drill bits left inside them and been scalded by hot water, official NHS data shows. Some 179 serious, preventable safety incidents occurred at hospitals …
DOCTORS are putting lives at risk by failing to see patients in person, with hundreds of practices now carrying out the majority of consultations remotely, we can reveal. Shocking statistics …
PATIENTS will needlessly be stuck in hospital for Christmas owing to the junior doctors’ strike, an NHS chief has warned. Their 72-hour walkout ended yesterday — but their return to …
GP surgeries have told patients to wait until after doctors’ strikes if they want an appointment. Junior doctors finish the first of two strikes on Saturday and walk out again …
THE number of patients in hospital with norovirus is 55 per cent higher than this time last year, new figures show. Overall cases of the “nasty” projectile vomiting bug have …
AS JUNIOR doctors in England walk out for a second day this week, NHS chiefs have urged Brits to only go to A&E for “serious or life threatening emergencies”. In …
MILLIONS of Brits face Christmas with Covid as testing suggests one in 24 of us have the bug less than a week before the big day. NHS bosses have warned …
JUNIOR doctors have been told to end “morally indefensible” strikes which will ruin Christmas for thousands of patients stuck on wards. Their union was urged by strike mediator Acas to …
LATE-stage cancer diagnoses have hit 100,000 in England to leave it lagging behind Europe in survival rates, stats show. Data from NHS England shows the UK now lags Germany and …
AN NHS hospital has admitted its water is currently contaminated with a killer bug. The major Wiltshire hospital has now raced in experts after traces of the horror bacteria were …