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Andy Burnham wants to offer access to free social care services to everyone in England, and will put his plans before voters at the next general election. The…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has proposed a national care service, free at the point of use, to tackle England's "threadbare" social care services. In an in…
NHS staff in England suspected of looking at patient records without a valid reason will be immediately suspended as part of a "zero-tolerance crackdown" on sn…
A rapid new test for brain tumours that the NHS has started using can slash the time it takes for an accurate diagnosis from up to eight weeks to two hours. T…
The mother of a teenage boy who died in hospital has said she is "deeply concerned and hurt" after learning his medical records may have been accessed inapprop…
Children as young as 13 are getting ketamine bladder damage, doctors running the UK's first and only dedicated NHS clinic for it have told the BBC in an exclus…
The NHS is expanding Martha's Rule to all hospital emergency departments in England to help patients and families challenge staff and seek second opinions abou…
Liberal Democrats are calling for one-to-one midwife care for women in labour, as figures suggest life-altering childbirth injuries in England have reached rec…
There are sensors in every room of Jyoti and Bharat Patel's home. Their movements and habits are monitored constantly. But this doesn't worry them, in fact it…
Twenty women underwent mastectomies unnecessarily while being treated for breast cancer, an NHS trust in north-east England has told the BBC. They were among …
Patients in England with a specific type of incurable breast cancer can now access a life-extending drug on the NHS, two years after it was deemed too expensiv…
The public inquiry into the Lucy Letby case may have reserved the strongest criticism for the Countess of Chester Hospital and its management, but there are bi…
Staff falsified records, slept and were on their phones on the night one patient was killed by another on an NHS mental health unit in east London, an inquest …
During the June 2026 heatwave, England's ambulance services faced a 35% increase in call volumes, primarily due to heat-related health issues, leading to over …
