Christopher Taylor, of Woodbury, near Exeter, was only a few days into his festive break when he collapsed during a walk on ...

One of England’s largest hospital trusts has ordered an independent review of its international medical training programmes because of concerns, first highlighted in The BMJ , that overseas doctors ...

Four of the UK’s worst-ranking hospitals for ambulance handovers are based in the South West. Truro’s Royal Cornwall Hospital, Swindon’s Great Western Hospitals, the Royal United Hospitals in Bath and ...

Read about evidence given by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt to the Thirlwall Inquiry, into the murder of seven babies by ...

The covid-19 pandemic and the recent cost-of-living crisis have substantially exacerbated pre-existing inequalities in health and social care in the UK.1 Marginalised populations are ...

The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust launched the free transport service for staff, patients and visitors in 2007. It runs between the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital (RBTH), Burnley General ...

A powerful ‘designer drug’ which is secretly mixed with heroin or passed off as ketamine is killing users, as a coroner warns ...

The waiting area of a new £58m emergency department (ED) is "too small", patients have told the BBC The building at Queen ...

A 68-year-old cancer survivor has become the first to conquer remote Pakistan peak alongside his 74-year-old climbing partner despite undergoing life-altering surgery that left him living with a ...

Embrace, the highly specialist, round-the-clock transport service for critically ill infants and children in Yorkshire and the Humber, has opened its doors to new premises.

Another Merseyside hospital has declared a critical incident as the crisis in Accident and Emergency continues to grip the ...

ROTHERHAM'S first interactive dementia conference brought together people with lived experience as well as health and civic ...