Browsing: NHS

The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has quit after the announcement of an independent inquiry into maternity failings at an NHS trust he led…

According to the Royal College of Nursing, incidents of violence against A&E nurses have almost doubled over the last six years, often due to people being…

The NHS’s total liabilities for medical negligence have hit £60bn, driven by a jump in childbirth injury cases that cost more than £11m each on average…

Jeremy Hunt’s article (Here’s the direct effect of our NHS blame culture: babies die. Tragedy after tragedy, it can’t go on, 9 October) will be welcome…

At the age of 15, medics feared Katie Mitchell was coming to the end of her life after suffering irreversible lung damage and heart failure from…

As an immigrant working in the NHS on a health and care visa, I am dismayed, disappointed, angry and terrified by Labour’s immigration reform proposals, due…

Lucian Leape, a pioneer in patient safety, once said the single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that “we punish people for…

Hundreds of NHS hospital workers have voted for strike action after claims that they have lost more than £36m in pay and pension contributions over the…

Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25% after weeks of intensive talks with the Donald…

Milly’s chronic fatigue illness, outlined by her father, Patrick Barkham, is heartbreaking (As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How…