HEALTH NEWS

NHS Foundation Trusts have said that they are experiencing increased financial pressures and may not meet waiting times this year, according to the regulator Monitor.

The United Kingdom is set for a two week tropical heat wave with temperatures to soar above 30C for most of the two-week period.

Sharon Shoesmith was unfairly sacked following the Baby P tragedy, The Court of Appeal has ruled.

A patient at Papworth Hospital is thought to be the first to have been discharged after receiving an entirely artificial heart.

A synthesised compound which is also found in bear bile could help people who have suffered a heart attack, according to research from Imperial College London.

The nurse arrested in relation to the deaths of patients at a hospital in Stockport has been given a provisional trial date of next February 28.

Doctors from 50 GP practices in Hertfordshire have agreed to prevent those who smoke or have a high BMI from receiving hip or knee replacement surgery, in a bid to cut costs.

Beer has just become officially classified as alcoholic in Russia, after President Dmitry Medvedev signed a bill to try and grasp control on sales of the drink.

Officers have until 9pm tonight to finish questioning a nurse, held on suspicion of murder after five patients have died at a hospital in Stockport.

Unions have criticised Government plans to increase competition for the NHS and give patients greater choice, for fear that it will pave the way for widespread privatisation.

Third Death Reported at Stepping Hill Hospital

The British Medical Association advised doctors to keep Facebook separate from their professional lives, as lines between both often become blurred.

Mounting scientific evidence is increasingly against the theory that mobile phone use causes brain tumours, according to a comprehensive analysis from an independent international expert panel.

An extremely low-calorie diet will help reverse Type 2 diabetes, researchers at Newcastle University in the U.K. have found.

Boozy pensioners are Britain's "invisible addicts", according to a new study, which urges the slashing of drinking limits for over-65s to take into account the effects of ageing.

As Japan attempts to bury its head in the sand over the full scale of the Fukushima nuclear power meltdown there is growing concerns across the world that the United States is not taking the problem seriously enough.

The full extent of the damage to the environment and the safety of the Japanese people that the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power caused is only now starting to become avaliable. Even more worrying is that it has not been released by the Japanese government but independent scientists who has scathed the Japanese governments rescue attempts.

Cameron and Miliband clash over Welfare reform

After being criticised for not communicating their initial plans well enough, have the government fared any better in revealing their new plans? Here is a roundup of the new reforms and how they differ from the previous plans.

BBC 2 will air 'Choosing to Die' at 9pm on Monday evening sparking widespread condemnation from officials and licence payers. The film 'Choosing to Die' is a documentary about Peter Swedley, a motor neurone suffer who is chosen to take his own life in Switzerland. The film shows the last breath of Peter Swedley before he passes away. The film is designed to highlight the suffering of people with terminal disease and to illustrate the tremendous heart break and strain such diseases pl...

In a week where the coalition should have looked to capitalise on the embarrassing letters and emails of Ed Balls, have party politics have got in the way of NHS reform once again? With that said, the tension within the ranks of the coalition is set to intensify. This week, Nick Clegg is expected to claim 'victory' against the Tory's in an address to Liberal Democrats in a move that is expected to infuriate Conservative backbenchers. They believe that Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has...

The E.coli outbreak sweeping Europe is the deadliest on record: 22 people have died and there have been over 2,000 reported cases in nine countries.

Health officials say the E. coli that has sickened thousands in Europe has become the deadliest outbreak of the bacterium on record, as a rare strain is causing kidney failure.As they explained that the strain is a previously unseen variant of the bacterium and one that is more virulent than before, US scientists, in opposition to Europeans, are now warning that the new strain appears to be resistant to common antibiotics.

German clinics are appealing for blood donations as the number of people infected with a deadly strain of E. coli keeps on rising and 1,730 people are now said to be affected.

The UK’s regional Scottish Government recently announced an unprecedented higher level of public access to National Health Service dentists. Figures indicate that substantially more people are now registered with an NHS dentist, including 94% of all children aged 6 to 12 yrs. old and a million extra residents in Scotland.