It has recently been revealed that the Welsh Labour Government delayed a major national inquiry into the state of the NHS in Wales until after the next general election, despite news this month that a large number of “cancer refugees” are now crossing the border into England in order to […]

Mistakes that are made by clinicians in England could cost the National Health Service as much as £2.5 billion each year, according to the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt. Speaking in Birmingham, the minister said that the NHS could afford to take on more nurses and auxiliary staff if such errors […]

According to leading health organisations, the condition of the NHS is critical, with little hope of recovery unless drastic resuscitation measures are speedily undertaken. Signatories to an open letter published in the Independent and directed at all three major political parties represent a powerful coalition of doctors, nurses and other […]

Sir Robert Francis QC, who was commissioned to chair an exhaustive inquiry into the gross failings of the Mid Staffordshire NHS trust, stated that “Openness means enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely and fearlessly, and questions to be answered fully and truthfully”. Clearly moved by some of the […]

As many as 10,000 people die each year as a result of poor NHS care, according to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) chair David Prior. The chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), an independent regulator of the NHS, has criticised the quality of treatment of patients in hospitals and […]

It was recently revealed that an alarming number of GP practices are reluctant to treat new patients. The number of GP practices adopting this stance has also increased sharply compared to two years ago, and is now twice as much as it was then. In the last twelve months some […]

A recent survey has revealed a significant increase in the number of written complaints concerning issues with the standard of the National Health Service. The survey, conducted by the Health and Social Care Information Centre, recorded a total of 174,872 complaints about the NHS in the past year – an […]

It was recently revealed that compensation in excess of £5 million has been paid out in the North-east of Scotland, due to maternity care negligence. In the past decade, NHS Grampian has settled 22 cases of negligence. The most paid out in a single year was the £4.3 million for […]