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Demand on A&E departments is 'out of control', warns health regulator
Thursday 09 May 2013
Demand on NHS accident and emergency departments is “out of control” and “totally unsustainable”, the head of the health and social care regulator has warned.
Deal or No Deal winner Caroline Banana sentenced for fraud
Monday 29 April 2013
A mother who won £95,000 on the television show Deal or No Deal has been ordered to do 215 hours unpaid work.
14 health trusts with high mortality rates had 3,000 more deaths than expected in single year
Wednesday 24 April 2013
Fourteen NHS Trusts under investigation for persistently high mortality rates had 3,000 more deaths than expected in one year, according to latest figures.
Jeremy Hunt accuses Royal College of Nurses of putting its own interests above patient care as nursing leaders call Government reforms 'a really stupid idea'
Monday 22 April 2013
Nursing leaders were accused tonight by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of putting the interests of their profession above patient care after they called Government reforms a “really stupid idea”.
Scandal-hit Mid Staffs NHS trust placed into administration to ensure 'sustainable delivery' of services
Monday 15 April 2013
The scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is to become the first foundation trust in the country to be put into administration, regulators confirmed.
First criminal probe into patient death at scandal-hit Mid-Staffs hospital
Thursday 11 April 2013
Officials admit diabetic Gillian Astbury suffered ‘appalling’ care on ward before she died
Children's heart surgery to restart at Leeds General Infirmary on Wednesday
Monday 08 April 2013
Children's heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary will restart on Wednesday, NHS England said today.
Eric Pickles condemns 'under-the counter pay-offs' as £14m bill for gagging orders for 5,000 axed civil servants is revealed
Wednesday 03 April 2013
200 staff in Whitehall and 4,562 in local authorities signed 'compromise agreements'
Get back on the ward: patients tsar tells nurses to talk less and care more
Monday 01 April 2013
No 10 adviser says NHS hospitals should consider getting rid of central nursing stations to re-engage staff with their patients
Hospital wards will have to ask for marks out of five
Monday 01 April 2013
Anyone admitted to hospital will soon be able to see what former patients thought of the care they received on a ward-by-ward basis, the NHS will announce today.
Sir David Nicholson: The man they couldn't hang
Sunday 31 March 2013
The decision to back the NHS chief is morally wrong, and has lost the coalition a rare opportunity to gain trust on health
Walter Winterbottom: The great guru born 100 years ago today
Sunday 31 March 2013
He shaped England's international game in ways that are still being felt today, as a new book reveals
Staffordshire terriers: the case for the defence after 14 year-old girl Jade Anderson was savaged to death
Wednesday 27 March 2013
We recommend people do their research properly, but Staffordshire terriers are not particularly hard work
Patients attack plan to reduce inspections of
best hospitals
Friday 22 March 2013
Families of those who died in the Mid Staffs scandal fear the new regime might not pick up poor care
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