The UK’s biggest nursing union has called for greater equality for black and ethnic minority nurses in the health service as the nation celebrates the 70 years since the Empire Windrush docked in Britain.
A man has thanked paramedics and doctors after surviving 15 cardiac arrests in just three hours.
Nursing staff first raised concerns about the poor prescribing and administration of opioids at the Gosport Memorial Hospital nearly 30 years ago but their fears were “silenced” by management, the inquiry reveals.
Post-Brexit Scotland will struggle to compete for EU workers, according to a new report, with north-east employers already feeling the pinch.
Theresa May’s figures on extra NHS spending are “so dodgy they belong on the side of a bus”, Jeremy Corbyn has claimed as he urged the Prime Minister to be straight with voters on tax rises to fund the plans.
A 90-tonne piece of cancer-fighting equipment that will improve the lives of hundreds of cancer patients every year has been carefully lowered into place in its new home.
Tax rises to support a £20.5 billion-a-year boost to the NHS budget will be “fair”, Theresa May said as she promised to end the “sticking plaster” approach to health funding.
Tax rises to support a £20.5 billion-a-year boost to the NHS budget will be “fair and balanced”, Theresa May has vowed.
Theresa May’s plans for a £384 million-a-week boost to NHS spending will increase the burden of taxation, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed.
Theresa May was under pressure to say how plans to give the NHS an extra £384 million a week will be paid for as she delivers a key note speech on health funding.
Northern Ireland is in line for a multimillion-pound health service spending boost.
Five key questions about the Prime Minister’s NHS funding announcement answered.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s insistence that a “Brexit dividend” will help boost NHS funding by £384 million a week has been branded “tosh” by a senior Tory MP.
The NHS is to get an extra £384 million a week after Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May has said.
The NHS will receive an extra £20 billion a year in real terms funding by 2024, partly paid for by a “Brexit dividend”, Prime Minister Theresa May is announcing.
Staff shortages at NHS Grampian have seen some hospitals’ ability to perform operations slashed by almost one-third in just two years.
The NHS could benefit from a “radical simplification” of streamlining and making social care free at the point of need, former Labour and Tory health ministers have suggested.
The NHS is to be able to recruit thousands more medical staff from abroad, after the Government announced a relaxation on visas.
Immigration rules capping the number of foreign medics working in the UK will be relaxed to allow the NHS to recruit more staff.
Immigration rules capping the number of foreign medics working in the UK will be relaxed to allow the NHS to recruit more staff.
The number of patients waiting longer than the recommended 18 weeks to start planned NHS hospital treatment has reached the highest number in almost a decade by exceeding half a million, official figures show.
Immigration rules capping the number of foreign medics working in the UK are reportedly going to be eased to allow the NHS to recruit more staff.
A retired grandmother who returned to the NHS to help heal the grieving Grenfell community said she hopes a positive legacy can emerge from the blaze for the next generation.
Young people are experiencing a “double epidemic” of obesity and mental health problems, the head of NHS England has warned.
More than one million health workers are to receive a pay rise worth 6.5% for most staff over the next three years, after the deal was accepted by those ranging from nurses to cleaners.
Opposition parties have issued fresh calls for Health Secretary Shona Robison to be replaced amid the latest statistics on NHS performance.
The NHS has topped a list of Britons’ most cherished institutions as it prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary, according to an annual consumer survey.
The NHS is set to get a “significant” increase in funding to mark its 70th anniversary next month, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has signalled.
Aberdeen University will train 30 extra doctors after receiving new Scottish Government funding.
Health officials are trying to trace 140 patients who have not yet responded to a major recall alert linked to concerns about the work of a consultant neurologist.
There has been a sharp rise in the number of patients who have waited more than a year for NHS care in England, according to a new report which paints a bleak picture of the NHS’ performance and finances.
More than a million GP patients have been forced to search for a new family doctor after their surgery closed or merged during the last five years, a new report suggests.