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The NHS has been ranked the number one health system in a comparison of 11 countries. The UK health service was praised for its safety, affordability and efficiency, but fared less well on outcomes such as preventing early death and cancer survival. The research by the Commonwealth Fund, a US...

Patients at risk of a heart attack could be denied vital tests and potentially life-saving operations under NHS plans to make £55m of budget cuts in Surrey and Sussex, the Guardian can reveal. NHS organisations in Surrey and Sussex are considering restricting the number of patients who have an...

Hello everyone, This is a request to interview a group of diabetic patients in the community for a Masters level project at the University of Warwick titled 'Responsibility of innovation and its adoption in the NHS'. I am aiming to conduct a focus group meeting so as to bring to light, the...

Some NHS hospital trusts have more than 1,000 staff vacancies including North Cumbria which has 48 vacant consultant roles, an investigation has revealed. The ITV News probe across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland asked every acute trust to disclose how many staff posts were...

Response to WannaCry attacks and National Data Guardian’s review includes £21m capital fund for major trauma centres and NHS contract change requiring organisations to adopt data security standards including contingency plans to respond to data security threats The government has announced a...

New figures have revealed that one NHS Tayside patient waited five-and-a-half years in hospital after being declared fit for discharge. A Tele investigation shows one patient’s discharge was delayed for 2,017 days due to “complex arrangements to live at home” needing to be carried out. Another...

Vital NHS operations and treatments are being increasingly rationed in England, leaving patients in pain, doctors say. The treatments affected include hip and knee replacements and cataract surgery to help restore sight as well as drugs for conditions such as arthritis. Such care is normally...

More nurses and midwives are leaving the profession in the UK than joining it, for the first time since 2008, figures show. The number registered in the UK fell by 1,783 to 690,773, in the year to March. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) said the downward trend had been most pronounced...

A junior doctor’s gripping account of working on the NHS’s frontline is likely to cause discomfort for Theresa May and the health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Dr Rachel Clarke’s book chronicles how rota gaps, exhausted staff and risks to patient safety make a mockery of ministers’ claims to be...

The NHS in England is "running on fumes", the leader of the British Medical Association is warning. Dr Mark Porter hit out at the government at the start of the union's annual conference. He accused ministers of putting patients at risk and "picking the pockets" of NHS staff because of the...

Hospitals should let more dogs and other animals on to wards and even into operating theatres to help patients, the Royal College of Nursing says. The call comes after the RCN collected scores of anecdotes of therapy-animals, and sometimes pets, helping recovery. Some young patients found...

Nearly everyone here is completely dependant on the NHS so - whatever your politics - please would you sign this petition against the latest lot of proposed cuts: https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/2273? You don't have to donate or anything, and if they send you emails about anything...

The number of patients waiting six months or more for surgery has tripled over the past four years in England, the Royal College of Surgeons has said. In March, nearly 130,000 people had been waiting for operations after being referred by a consultant, compared with 45,000 in March 2013. But...

Tens of thousands of expat pensioners may return to the UK to use the NHS after Brexit - unless a deal can be done to let them keep receiving care abroad, a think tank has warned. The Nuffield Trust estimates the cost of treating them - on home soil, rather than abroad - could double to £1bn...

Hi all Has anyone joined up to the OurPath programme? If so what do you think and is it worth the £145? What does anyone else think?

The government has failed to block the release of sections of former health secretary Andrew Lansley’s diaries in the court of appeal. Journalist Simon Lewis made a request under the Freedom of Information Act to see passages of Lansley’s ministerial diary from 2010 and 2011, covering the...

The NHS and social care system in the UK is facing a staggering increase in the cost of looking after elderly people within the next few years, according to major new research which shows a 25% increase in those who will need care between 2015 and 2025. Within eight years, there will be 2.8...

Brexit could mean that more than 3m patients across the UK lose their family doctor, the RCGP has warned. The college says that 2,137 GPs across the UK are from the EU, and is calling for the next government unilaterally to guarantee their right to remain in the country post-Brexit. Polling...

NHS trusts are experiencing disruption one week after a cyber-attack caused havoc in more than 150 countries. The unprecedented ransomware breach froze computers across the health service last Friday, with hackers threatening to delete files unless a ransom was paid. Operations and clinic...

It is likely that publication of key financial performance data from the NHS in England will be delayed until after the election, the BBC understands. Regulator NHS Improvement is understood to want to publish data on the scale of hospital deficits but has been advised against it by parts of...