Politics

Patients can expect to wait for more than 12 months to receive routine NHS procedures ‘for some years’, health bosses have warned. Waiting more than a year for treatment will become ‘normal’...

The pandemic has put the issue of care homes and long-term care – often at the back of most people’s minds – firmly in the spotlight and yet many still fail to...

Some NHS dental patients have been asked to pay for private care "if they want any treatment", a watchdog has warned. Waits of up to two years for an NHS appointment are...

Care home workers across the country are struggling to make ends meet because they are still not given full pay when they are ill, it has been claimed. Trade union Unison said...

January 2021 was the “saddest” in the past ten years, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show that for Britain’s mental wellbeing, this January was the worst...

Independent/private healthcare providers have delivered over 135,000 cancer treatments to both NHS and private patients throughout the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data compiled by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN). The...

Healix International has won the UK Government contract to look after the global healthcare of its 25,000 travelling and overseas workers until 2025. The contract, under the One HMG banner, is the...

More than two fifths of all deaths in the week ending 22 January were related to Covid, official statistics show. An analysis of death certificates suggests that more than 9,000 deaths –...

There has been a comparitively small but significant increase in the number of people coming into contact with “secondary” mental health services in England, official figures show. Statistics from NHS England reveal...

The long-term care and social care sectors have shown “admirable strength and resilience” over the past year – in financial resilience as well as everything else they have achieved. That is the...