SENIOR doctor strikes are over after they voted to accept ministers’ pay deal. The new contract will see NHS consultants pay start at £99,000 rather than £94,000 and top out …
NHS PATIENTS are being told to bring their own batteries to GP appointments to cut costs. People getting their blood pressure or hearts checked were asked to provide AA batteries …
A 24-YEAR-OLD who thought his “protruding” eye might “fall out of his head” visited hospital nine times before being given a terrifying diagnosis. Farid Oladapo was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma …
DO you, or your child, struggle to read others’ emotions, find it hard to express how you feel, or have an exceptionally good eye for detail? These are all key …
NEARLY one in ten patients waited four weeks for a GP appointment in parts of England last year, analysis shows as A&E delays soared. Some 17.6million people in the country …
MORE than 250 patients are dying needlessly each in England each week due to long A&E waits, new estimates suggest. Calculations by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) suggest patients …
A RECORD number of NHS patients were paid compensation last year after doctors failed to spot they had cancer. In total, 319 payouts were made in 2023 — nearly double …
DOCTORS’ strikes have added nearly half a million operations to the NHS waiting list, the health service estimates. NHS England officials reckon the impact has extended the backlog by 430,000. …
PHARMACY technicians and dental hygienists will be able to prescribe new drugs without the sign-off of a doctor or dentist, ministers have announced. New plans aimed at freeing up senior …
MORE than 2.7million people in England now use the NHS app to get their prescriptions. The health service has been told it must modernise or die, with better use of …