Politics

Protection and private medical insurance medical advisers looking to support SME businesses and grow the overall health benefits market – and in turn UK plc – have seen some potential avenues of...

A senior minister in Northern Ireland’s parliament has said he is reconsidering his lifelong ideological opposition against private healthcare after he himself has fallen victim to the surge in cancer surgery delays...

Cancer treatment must go ahead regardless of the impact of coronavirus on hospitals, health chiefs have said. The edict comes amid concerns that too many cancer operations and procedures are being shelved...

One in four adults put their mental and physical health at the top of their agenda last year – but a significant number still fail to make the link between that and...

Student nurses say they are not being given adequate financial protection including life cover while they deal with the growing number of Covid-19 cases each day. BBC’s Newsbeat has spoken to a...

Employees are now more engaged in their organisation’s activities, goals and benefits – but many businesses are unaware of the financial concerns of their staff, research suggests. A snapshot poll carried out...

The number of people waiting more than a year for routine treatment, including knee and hip operations, is now over 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic. Figures released today...

A woman in Northern Ireland who paid privately for cataract surgery is taking legal action to highlight lengthy NHS waiting lists in the region. Along with another woman who is taking similar...

Employees are now more engaged in their organisation’s activities, goals and health and wellbeing benefits – perhaps as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic – research suggests. A snapshot – and a...

Almost half of intensive care unit (ICU) staff are going through post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety thresholds, academics say. A study by King's College London shows nearly half of ICU staff...