MPs say new NHS safety organisation ‘must be independent’
A new organisation designed to make the NHS in England safer must have its independence…
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Scientists discover an inherited gene for MS
Scientists say they have found a gene that causes a rare but inherited form of…
Motor neurone disease patients ‘face delays in seeing specialists’
One in five people with motor neurone disease (MND) waits more than a year to…
NHS will not fund anti-HIV Prep drug plan
NHS England has reiterated it will not fund a “game-changer” drug treatment that can prevent…
Winterbourne View: Families demand action five years on from Panorama
Families of victims of the Winterbourne View scandal have written to the prime minister demanding…
Is the ambulance service in crisis?
It is perhaps one of the untold stories of the health service. While there has…
Infections resist ‘last antibiotic’ in US
27 May 2016 From the section Health The first case of an infection that resists…
Gene therapy drug approval granted to GSK
27 May 2016 From the section Science & Environment Regulators have given one of the…
Mental health support ‘denied to children’
More than a quarter of children referred to mental health services in England in…
Care ‘has improved for 12,000 in homes’ in England
More than 12,000 people in England are now safer and being looked after better in…
Teen cancer death rate causes alarm
Too many teenagers and young adults are dying of some types of cancer, a Europe-wide…
Anti-cancer jab piloted in gay men
A vaccine to reduce the risk of cancer is to be offered to homosexual men…
NHS ‘must get a grip on hospital discharge delays’
The NHS in England must get a grip on the delays patients face in being…
NHS spend on private ambulances trebles in four years
NHS spending on private ambulances for 999 calls in England has trebled in four years,…
Heart transplant boy Elliot Livingstone has ‘second chance at life’
He was fitted with a “Berlin Heart” – which pumps blood from outside the body…