NHS News

Cancer patient holds head in agony after being forced to wait 7 hours in A&E

Cancer patients wait more than a year for diagnosis

Cancer diagnosis scandal: 17,000 Britons die needlessly every year due to delays in spotting the disease, experts warn

Delays in cancer diagnosis results in more than 17,000 British deaths per year

GPs dump mental health cases on us, complain police

Police ‘picking up pieces of mental health system’, says watchdog

Police taking calls on mental health issues every two minutes, watchdog warns

NHS failings ‘forcing police to respond to mental health incidents rather than crimes’, report finds

Most doctors fear hospitals won’t cope this winter

Hospital staff fear for safety of NHS patients this winter, new poll reveals

Out of hours service assigned just two doctors to 1.4m patients

Just two GPs to care for 1.4MILLION people: Whole of Kent was left with ‘unsafe’ out-of-hours cover after clerical error, leaked document reveals

Google ‘poised to profit’ from NHS patient records

NHS relaxes English tests to tackle nursing shortage

A fifth of NHS hospitals are missing all their waiting list targets this year, figures show

One in five NHS hospitals keep missing all of their crucial waiting targets, investigation reveals

Thousands will die as NHS lurches to most CRITICAL winter crisis for two decades – medics

People with severe mental health problems forced to wait longer for NHS help than those with mild depression

Four in ten hospital patients are regularly woken up at night due to ‘unsafe’ levels of noise on wards, research suggests

Patients discharging themselves while still sick because wards are too noisy at night, research finds

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