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An 85-year-old man died while waiting in an accident and emergency unit because of "dangerous overcrowding", a hospital boss has said. An email leaked from Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust to the Health Service Journal said the patient died after going to A&E with stomach pain on...

More than a million NHS employees are to be offered a pay rise if they give up a day’s annual leave, a leaked document has revealed. The document, seen by the Guardian, reportedly says the Government is prepared to increase salaries for the 1.3 million workers on the Agenda for Change...

The arrival of winter has become synonymous with missed waiting time targets, cancelled operations and efforts to redirect people away from accident and emergency departments. As resilience plans kick in, staff brace themselves for a surge in patients presenting with breathing difficulties and...

NHS chiefs and health unions in England are understood to be close to agreeing a three-year pay deal. Talks on an award for all health staff - except for doctors and dentists - are said to be constructive and going well. The government has already said it would scrap the 1% cap on public...

Patients whose lives are at risk are being turned away from their local hospitals because of a lack of intensive care beds, doctors who work in those units have revealed. Four in five intensive care units (ICUs) are having to send patients to other hospitals as a result of chronic bed and staff...

Plans to create a controversial 'Accountable Care System' for health services which critics had said would allow the NHS to be privatised have been abandoned. Cornwall Council has been looking at ways of improving the health system in Cornwall and to bring health and social care together...

At least 271 highly vulnerable mental health patients have died over the last six years after failings in NHS care, a Guardian investigation has found. Coroners have been so alarmed at the lapses in care that emerged during inquests that they issued legal warnings to 136 NHS bodies, mainly...

Popped into my clinic for a walk-in appointment this morning for a couple little things at 8am, took a book as I may be there a while, yep, your GP will see you 8.20am. I have an appt next Tuesday with him but we went through my new ailments and my Diabetes results, bp down, he was pleased my...

A hotel chain refused to give NHS staff a discount when they were forced to book rooms during the heavy snow, it has been claimed. Dozens of doctors, nurses, midwives and other health professionals at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny braved the treacherous conditions so they could get into...

Hospitals in England are admitting so many patients as medical emergencies that the NHS’s finances and ability to function are under threat, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has warned. But one in four of the growing number of mainly older people who end up in inpatient care should not be in...

A GP being treated for septic arthritis in his knee was left screaming all night in pain during a four-week stay in a major English hospital this winter, with the care he received 'at times verging on negligence and neglect', GPonline can reveal. The GP was left in tears, screaming and begging...

Last year, we conducted research on the Future of Diabetes, to which many of you gave your contribution. Some of the biggest bits of feedback we got were around improving healthcare professionals. You can play a role in doing this through joining the Diabetes UK Clinical Champion review panel...

Drug errors in England cause appalling levels of harm and deaths, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says, as data suggests mistakes are being made. GPs, pharmacists, hospitals and care homes may be making 237 million errors a year - the equivalent of one mistake made for every five drugs handed out...

Hi! I officially hate diabetes. Like passionately hate the condition. I suffer from anxiety and depression. Doesn't help I have a benign brain cyst too so when I am suffering from a migraine I can't eat so always running high. Last hba1c was 12.0 lowest it's been in a few years but still, the...

A new ring-fenced tax to fund the NHS and social care has been proposed by a panel of health experts. The panel, set up by the Liberal Democrats, says the NHS in England should be given an extra £4bn on top of inflation in the next financial year. It has suggested replacing National Insurance...

Health leaders have written to Justice Secretary David Gauke urging him to reform the payout system for negligence claims against the NHS in England. They say costs are spiralling, "unsustainable" and diverting vast amounts from frontline care. The NHS Confederation, the British Medical...

The NHS will not be privatised because public support for it is so strong that any government seeking to change its funding model would be committing “political suicide”, an analysis has claimed. The research by the influential King’s Fund health thinktank dismisses fears – voiced by Labour and...

The suspension of non-urgent operations to ease winter NHS pressures in England is to be lifted from February. Hospitals had been advised to defer non-urgent operations until mid-January, which was then extended in a bid to free up hospital staff and beds. Announcing the end of the suspension...

The state of the NHS is the biggest single issue vexing Conservative voters, with more than seven in 10 citing it as a serious concern, and fewer than four in 10 believing the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, should keep his job, a poll suggests. However, while they were concerned about its...

NHS hospital trusts in England may have to recalculate A&E performance figures from last October onwards. The UK Statistics Authority has told NHS England to explain changes to the recording of A&E data. It says the changes - highlighted by BBC News - could have left people reaching...