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The NHS is facing an “unprecedented flu wave”, a senior healthcare leader said, as the number of people with the illness in hospitals across England hit…

I was lying on my back in an east London hospital, sometime in August 2023. I don’t know what day it was, exactly; by that point…

The UK has agreed to pay 25% more for new medicines by 2035 as part of a US-UK drug pricing deal that will cost an estimated…

Wes Streeting has accused the British Medical Association (BMA) of being “impossible” and issuing “misleading” information in an escalation of tensions with the doctors union.In an…

An NHS doctor accused of antisemitism has been suspended for 15 months pending an investigation, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in the UK has ruled.The…

A girl who killed herself when she absconded from 24-hour clinical supervision was failed by a system that was meant to protect her, her parents have…

Lord Hutton writes of the NHS health centres that have been built thanks to private finance (Letters, 23 November). In Didcot we’ve been waiting more than…

The NHS has been directing pregnant women to a website that connected them to the Free Birth Society, an organisation that has been linked to baby…

Labour MPs are absolutely right to reject Wes Streeting’s plan to use private capital to build neighbourhood health centres (Labour MPs urge Reeves to drop private…

Hospitals need to become smaller, with fewer beds, to help save the NHS from its “permacrisis”, a thinktank has said.The role hospitals play needs to undergo…