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NHS managers have backed the claim by Bob Kerslake, the outgoing chairman of King’s College hospital, that the health service is being denied the money it needsto meet the rising demand for healthcare. The NHS Confederation, which represents 85% of the NHS’s 240 trusts in England, urged the...

The health secretary says he'll debate actor Ralf Little over claims he's lied about the NHS. In an interview with Newsbeat, Jeremy Hunt says he's waiting for the Royle Family star to "show the evidence" that he hasn't expanded NHS mental health provision. The pair started rowing on Twitter...

The boss of one of the NHS’s biggest trusts has resigned in protest at what he claims is such serious government underfunding that hospitals cannot perform their key role properly. Bob Kerslake, who was the head of the civil service until 2015, is quitting as the chairman of the board at King’s...

Cases of the winter vomiting bug have rocketed by 13 per cent in just a week, official data reveal. Government statistics show 1,475 people have been infected with norovirus since July, compared to 1,294 last week. The jump in cases, which has been increasing at a similar rate week-on-week...

The latest acronym to hit the NHS is ACO - accountable care organisations. You would be forgiven for sighing with disbelief at yet another change to the way the NHS operates. It wasn’t enough for the Conservative-led coalition to push through the single biggest reorganisation of the NHS with the...

Stephen Hawking has reignited his public dispute with Jeremy Hunt by joining a legal action aimed at scuppering an NHS shake-up that he fears will lead to greater privatisation and rationing of resources. The physicist has become a party to a lawsuit that is seeking to stop the introduction of...

Labour is demanding that MPs be allowed to debate and vote on “secret” plans for the NHS that they claim could lead to greater rationing of care and privatisation of health services. The party says ministers are trying to push through the creation of “accountable care organisations” (ACOs)...

Campaigners have claimed NHS bodies in Bristol are "colluding" with private health companies, offering patients a price list for operations they could get for free. Campaign group Protect Our NHS made the statement after hundreds of GPs in the Bristol area were given a list of prices for...

The number of long A&E waits across the UK has more than doubled in the past four years as hospitals struggle to cope with demand, BBC analysis shows. Northern Ireland has the worst performance, although England has seen the fastest deterioration, the figures show. Over 3m patients who visited...

A community interest company led by Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett has been formed with the aim of doubling the number of volunteers in the NHS by 2021. Hughes-Hallett, a former chief executive of Marie Curie, said NHS staff were under "intense pressure" and the new organisation, called HelpForce...

Last month, I, alongside several colleagues, launched a new digital service that makes NHS GPs available to people – initially in London – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via their mobile phones. GP at Hand harnesses technology to cut down the wait for a routine GP appointment from the current...

Jeremy Hunt has ordered NHS England to stick to waiting time limits, putting him at loggerheads with its leaders who said hours earlier that insufficient funding from last week’s budget made this impossible. NHS England told ministers on Thursday it would have to tear up guarantees on waiting...

A hospital failed to spot cases of lung cancer because it did not check patients' chest X-rays properly, the Care Quality Commission has found. The health watchdog found that three patients at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth suffered "significant harm". It emerged that junior doctors...

The government has triggered a row with NHS staff by unveiling plans to overhaul their pay, including how much they receive for working antisocial shifts. Health unions have warned Jeremy Hunt that he is risking a repeat of the acrimonious junior doctors’ dispute by seeking to reduce the extra...

There was a fuss in January this year when the Red Cross described the underfunding of the National Health Service as a “humanitarian crisis”. If the Government does not like that phrase, perhaps it will consider the measured comment by Professor Chris Ham of the King’s Fund, the health charity...

Ninety MPs have signed a letter calling on the prime minister to set up a cross-party convention on the future of the NHS and social care in England. They say a non-partisan debate is needed to deliver a "sustainable settlement" to fund social care costs. The letter to Theresa May and...

Over half of people in England, Scotland and Wales would back an increase in National Insurance to help fund the NHS, new research suggests. In a survey conducted by YouGov, 20,000 participants were asked whether they would support increasing the basic rate of National Insurance from 12% to 13%...

NHS hospitals have warned they face a budget overspend of millions of pounds this winter as they attempt to deal with rising numbers of patients. New data shows hospitals are delivering better performance this year than last but are predicted to go £127m more over budget that had been planned...

Jacob Rees-Mogg today said the Government must honour the EU referendum promise to pump another £350million into the NHS a week. The leading Brexiteer said he did not want the figure used in the campaign and plastered on the side of the bus which toured the country. But he said 'electors...

Theresa May has made NHS boss Simon Stevens personally responsible for ensuring the health service does not end up in a crisis this winter, amid renewed tension between him and ministers. The prime minister told Stevens that he would be held accountable for how well hospitals and GP services in...