NHS

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals

Regulation

Brighton and Sussex NHS Trust placed in 'special measures' over staff shortages and cleanliness

CQC slates two hospitals where surgeons operated on wrong part of body and LGBT staff felt discrimination.

Aug 17, 2016

By Dan Cancian

Politics

Tories have 'secret plan' to privatise the NHS claims Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith

Smith will make a major speech on the NHS after visiting the Trafford General Hospital today.

Aug 15, 2016

By Ian Silvera

Health

NHS data reveals hundreds of successful organ donations by cancer patients

NHS blood and transplant services revealed hundreds of successful organ donations by cancer patients.

Aug 13, 2016

By Jen Offord

Cancer

Politics

Owen Smith is the leader Labour needs to return the party to power

The Labour party is the greatest engine of progressive social change the UK has ever seen.

Aug 12, 2016

By Nick Thomas-Symonds MP

Jeremy Corbyn

Society

We can't help Britain's maternity crisis unless we restrict immigration

Pressure on services is now so bad that we need 2,600 more midwives in the NHS.

Aug 5, 2016

By Suzanne Evans

Brexit

Health

Homophobes see PrEP as an excuse for gay men to have unprotected sex with every guy we can

Men of all sexualities engage in risky behaviours, but when they involve another man the moralising begins.

Aug 2, 2016

By Josh Lee

AIDS

Health

Are 'bottomless booze' brunches fuelling dangerous drinking habits in the UK?

An alcohol addiction specialist has criticised unlimited alcohol deals for promoting unhealthy drinking.

Aug 2, 2016

By Lydia Smith

Society

NHS consultants in UK earn £1,000 for working 4 hours overtime, Freedom of Information request finds

Figures also showed 25% trusts paid £100,000 or more to consultants in 2015, while one Lancashire doctor earned £375,000.

Jul 27, 2016

By Nandini Krishnamoorthy

England

Society

Hospital probe launched after pregnant mental health patient 'pinned down' by male nurse

The woman was 8-and-a-half months pregnant when three nurses held her face down on the floor.

Jul 16, 2016

By William Watkinson

London

Smartphones

NHS Go: New iOS and Android app provides sexual health and wellbeing advice for young Londoners

App promises anonymous well-being advice and secure access to NHS Choices information.

Jul 14, 2016

By Oliver Cragg

Sexual health

Health

What is sepsis? The blood poisoning watchdogs say should be treated as urgently as heart attacks

UK Sepsis Trust estimates sepsis kills around 44,000 people in the UK each year.

Jul 13, 2016

By James Tennent

Health

NHS wants doctors to work closely with parents of sick children

Report says numerous lives can be saved if minute-by-minute changes in patients are taken seriously.

Jul 13, 2016

By Divya Kishore

Society

Parents of child left disabled after GPs failed to diagnose infant meningitis win £15m settlement

The six-week-old baby had 30 minutes to live when he arrived at hospital.

Jul 10, 2016

By Zairah Khurshid

Politics

Jeremy Hunt 'buries bad news' of new NHS junior doctors contract day Chilcot report published

Health secretary accused of sneaking our announcement during Tony Blair speech's on Iraq.

Jul 6, 2016

By Lewis Dean

Society

North Middlesex Hospital chief leaves office after CQC finds emergency care 'inadequate'

A report on the hospital has been published following an unannounced inspection by CQC.

Jul 6, 2016

By Divya Kishore

Politics

Brexit: We are not the country of Nigel Farage's Ukip, we were sold a false promise on the EU

Leave knowingly peddled a litany of lies to the electorate - but their claims are unravelling.

Jul 1, 2016

By Tom Brake MP

Nigel Farage UKIP Brexit

Politics

Brexit: Iain Duncan Smith denies Leave campaign promised '£350m for the NHS'

Former work and pensions secretary denies major Leave campaign's promise

Jun 26, 2016

By Tom Mendelsohn

Brexit EU Referendum European Union

Health

Immunotherapy drug combo to treat skin cancer approved for NHS use by Nice

Advanced melanoma patients in England and Wales will be the first in Europe to get the drug combination.

Jun 17, 2016

By Divya Kishore

Politics

EU referendum: Jeremy Corbyn pleas with Labour movement to back Remain campaign

Left-wing leader will make another pro-EU speech alongside his shadow cabinet at the TUC.

Jun 14, 2016

By Ian Silvera

EU Referendum Brexit Jeremy Corbyn

Health

World Blood Donor Day: Here are the reasons why you need to give blood

World Blood Donor Day is a global initiative marked on 14 June to encourage people to donate blood.

Jun 14, 2016

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