Desperate patients have been queuing in the freezing cold to get in with an NHS dentist. Dentists at a practice in Bristol told how families travel hundreds of miles to get NHS care, and some ...

A "groundbreaking" £1.65 million treatment has been approved for use on the NHS, offering patients with severe sickle cell disease some hope of a cure. It is believed around 1,700 people could be ...

Experts fear that thousands of patients could die unnecessarily if the NHS doesn't address the extensive treatment delays revealed in recent analysis. The figures by Radiotherapy UK showed over ...

For decades, patients have moaned about dreary meals served up in NHS hospitals, with complaints about cold dinners, 'tiny portions' and overcooked slop. Others have previously told of even ...

There is undoubtedly a place for NHS partnership and joint-working says Di Vegh, NHS Partnership Manager, ABPI speaking at a recent meeting to debate the role of promotion and partnership in ...

But having such an assessment isn't standard practice across the NHS. This needs to change. And medical teams must ensure they ask patients about their mental health, so they can get support for ...

Patients were placed on mixed-sex NHS hospital wards nearly 50,000 times last year – a record high. Charities said the “alarming” increase in breaches of rules to protect patient dignity was ...

Patients are dying in corridors and sometimes going undiscovered for hours, while sick people are being left to soil themselves, according to a damning report into the state of the NHS.

“Quite frankly, our patients and staff deserve better facilities and we can’t wait that long to make the much-needed improvements in our hospitals.” One reason for the NHS’s enormous ...

Older patients have said the NHS should focus more on their medical treatment and less on terminology. Dennis Reed, from Silver Voices, which campaigns for older patients, said: 'The terms OAP and ...

I would like to double the number of NHS staff but they’re doing their best with the resources they’ve got.” Our visit to the hospital came after a survey last week reported that patients ...

The number of patients in hospital with flu has begun to fall after reaching levels three times as high as last year. NHS England figures show 4,929 people were in bed with the illness each day ...