In dramatic intervention in election, health chiefs urge parties to avoid false promises Hospitals are so short of doctors and nurses that patients’ safety and quality of care are under… Read more »
Dr Mu-Chun Chiang was told to leave the UK after a tiny error in her visa application despite 18 years in the country The Home Office has abandoned its plan… Read more »
Leading doctors say schools should not allow in children who have not had vaccination The MMR jab should be compulsory for children before they are allowed to start primary school… Read more »
David Nicholl accuses Commons leader of abusing parliamentary privilege A senior doctor who helped draw up government medical plans for a no-deal Brexit has threatened to sue Jacob Rees-Mogg after… Read more »
Politician called neurologist ‘shameful’ for raising concerns about supply of medicines Latest Brexit developments – live updates The consultant neurologist who clashed with Jacob Rees-Mogg over contingency plans for a… Read more »
Growing demand and underinvestment blamed for average wait of nearly 15 days The average wait for a routine GP appointment in the UK has risen above two weeks for the… Read more »
Doctors warn health services in danger of meltdown and facing ‘existential threat’ Hospitals are having to cancel operations and cancer scans are going unread for weeks because consultant doctors have… Read more »
Research, disputed by NHS, shows 138 practices shut with smaller surgeries worst hit GP surgery closures across the UK have reached an all-time high, affecting an estimated half a million… Read more »
Doctors warned delays exposed by NHS research would make illnesses more costly to treat One in five patients now has to wait at least 15 days to see a GP… Read more »
Exclusive: ministers agree to increase number of doctors allowed to work in UK under medical training initiative The government is set to relax its immigration rules to let more foreign… Read more »
Thinktanks say crisis in health service will mean some of its £20.5bn boost never gets spent The staffing crisis in the NHS is deepening so fast that the service could… Read more »
Royal College of Physicians finds black or minority ethnic doctors find it harder to get consultant posts The NHS has been embroiled in a new racism controversy after it emerged… Read more »