Patients are up in arms over the proposals to put local practice doctors through a series of tests each year.
As the NHS heads towards another bed crisis supermarket giant Tesco have stepped in to help.
Nurses are to be rated according to the levels of care and empathy they give to patients under a new initiative to raise standards in the NHS.
The annual Lawn Tennis spectacular at Wimbledon looks set to place a particular strain on NHS services this year, with demand for ambulances, heart pacemakers, defibrillators and ACE inhibitors looking set to outpace supply.
A major report issued by some very influential people who know an awful lot about these things, has revealed that footballer Wayne Rooney is worth every penny of the salary he is paid, currently the equivalent in one week to the annual salary of 5 qu...
London - (Afterbirth Mess): The NHS Watchdog is investigating a human birth byproducts scandal involving canny NHS managers whose entrepreneurial spirit was slammed after two tons of human placenta ended up in a dog food cannery.
An NHS trust has been told to clean up its act after inspectors found blood stains on a bedrail and filthy commodes, it was revealed yesterday.
NHS walk-in clinics in Wales are planning to offer patients 50 pence for each different STD that they test positive for.
LONDON, England - A proposal by Gordon Brown allowing hospitals to take organs from dead patients without their explicit consent has critics saying it doesn't have a leg to stand on. It is to be modelled after a program in Spain...
The cash-stricken UK NHS is set to save millions of pounds by closing at least one ward in every hospital per week. In effect this will lay-off, albeit temporarily, nurses, doctors and cleaners.
Nursing staff at a leading London maternity hospital have been criticised for refusing to allow a young woman in the throes of giving birth, to continue a mobile phone call. The woman, Shaz Shizzle, 16, was asked to terminate the call, thought to...
Sam Wickes the Government Junior Health Minister announced plans today Monday 29th October 2007 that the first DIY Hospital was to be built for the NHS Trust.
A hospital bug the size of a big idea was captured today after apparently roaming the roach-lined corridors of an NHS minibus-hospital. The bug was apprehended and questioned by pest controlling pest Dean Snodgrass and was later forced to apologies t...
Patients groups have expressed bewilderment at Government plans to force hospital doctors to give up their traditional white coats and wear gorilla costumes instead.
In an announcement today the minister of health and trousers Michel Montgomery-Smith, announced that he was announcing that 99% of beds in hospitals were to be removed to compensate for over crowding. He said that "Patients take up too much room...
A report out today shows that doctors are being paid more than eve due to a loop hole in their contract. Doctors are being bought private planes by the NHS with DR written on the side, a measure enabled seventeen year ago in order to increase accessi...
Following the revelations that some of those involved in the recent Glasgow Airport attacks had been working in UK hospitals there has been increasing calls for the Government to investigate the NHS which has been long since suspected of being a bre...
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