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The family of a girl left brain-damaged at birth have agreed to accept £28m in damages after the NHS trust involved admitted that its mistakes led…

The NHS is taking action to tackle antisemitism after a government-ordered report found that Jewish patients and staff face “routine ostracism” in the service.Anti-Jewish hatred in…

Sharing access to patients’ health data across NHS providers in England could result in 20,000 fewer A&E visits a year and save £20m annually, the government…

A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer that was billed as the holy grail of oncology has failed to achieve its main objective…

The NHS is paying private firms record sums to analyse diagnostic scans because hospitals are too busy and understaffed to do the work themselves, research has…

The rollout of a “life-changing” artificial pancreas on the NHS for people with type 1 diabetes has helped to narrow ethnic and socioeconomic inequality within access…

The NHS must move quickly to update information for patients after the renaming of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), a grassroots…

Almost two-thirds of nurses believe there are too few of them working in the NHS to keep patients safe and give them proper care, a survey…

Campaigners against the UK’s controversial drug pricing deal with Donald Trump are threatening the government with legal action unless it scraps a key element of the…

Hundreds of children with a rare muscle-wasting disease will be able to receive two drugs that can improve their survival in a move parents hailed as…