Some 6.44 million patients were waiting for 7.71 appointments or procedures in October, down from 6.50m waiting for a record 7.77m in September. It was the first time the total …
Getting jabs against a range of diseases will soon be “as easy as booking a cab”, the NHS has promised. Easier access to vaccine records via the NHS app and …
Complex births due to obesity or women waiting longer to get pregnant could have led to an increase in emergency Caesarean sections, medics say. Data published by NHS England showed the …
Specsavers is calling on the Government to provide NHS-funded eye tests for the homeless, ahead of its own plans to set up out-of-hours clinics in stores in 2024. People affected …
And health and social care costs are setting taxpayers back £115.2billion a year, according to The Forgotten Majority? report. It comes as Office for National Statistics figures reveal a record …
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) uses high frequency sound waves to destroy tumours with much milder side-effects than traditional therapies for more advanced cancers. Patients can be treated in one day …
A doctor is warning men about a little-known symptom of prostate cancer that they should get checked out. Getting any kind of pain and discomfort around the groin area can …
A woman paid £3,000 to save her sight after there was a three-week waiting list on the NHS. She was warned that if she waited just one more week there …
Millions of women will be able to get free contraceptive pills from a pharmacy without seeing their GP first, under NHS plans announced on Thursday. Chemists across England will begin …
Hopes were raised of a resolution to months of NHS strikes when the new Health Secretary vowed to “get around the table” with doctors. Victoria Atkins described herself as “an …