EMPLOYEE SUSPENDED AS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL KERRY CONDUCTS REVIEW OF OVER 46,000 FILES

The South SouthWest Group, which covers University Hospital Kerry, confirmed to RTE in a statement that it is investigating patient safety concerns at the hospital... READ MORE›

HOW ONE DOCTOR IN KERRY SPARKED RECALL OF 46,000 SCANS

Patients at the centre of the probe are from the hospital's catchment area including Kerry, North Cork and Limerick... READ MORE›

NHS EXPLORES APPS FOR CARE IN A DIGITAL AGE

The task at the NHS Ideas Lab hackathon was to find 21st-century solutions to problems facing patients, doctors and the NHS... READ MORE›

MAJOR NHS TRUST TURNS AWAY A&E PATIENTS 13 TIMES IN A WEEK

As cold snap adds to pressure, Worcestershire trust is forced to divert patients from A E at two hospitals... READ MORE›

NHS ENGLAND ACCUSED OF HIDING HOSPITALS' WINTER CRISIS ALERT FIGURES

The change in policy emerged on Thursday when NHS England issued the first set of weekly figures showing how hospitals are performing this winter... READ MORE›

CANCER X-RAY SERVICES TO BE REVIEWED AFTER SERIOUS DIAGNOSTIC FAILURES

It has ordered the trust to take immediate action to ensure that x-rays are reviewed by appropriately trained clinicians... READ MORE›

HOSPITALS ATTACK BARKING MAD NHS TARGET TO MANAGE WINTER CRISIS

Given that hospitals are underbedded and underfunded, and emergency departments are understaffed, trying to deliver performance in that climate is nigh-on impossible... READ MORE›

PATIENTS WAITING AT LEAST AN HOUR IN AMBULANCES DOUBLE IN TWO YEARS

The next biggest rises were recorded by Yorkshire ambulance service and then North West ambulance service... READ MORE›

CHINA'S 'BAREFOOT' AFRICAN DOCTOR TO TAKE TCM TO AFRICA[1]

He would tell me, a doctor's job is to love his patients and serve his community... READ MORE›

JANE FLINT: HAVING AN ATHEIST CHAPLAIN IS ABOUT PATIENT CHOICE

Given the religious association with the term chaplain, Flint is called a non-religious pastoral carer to avoid confusion... READ MORE›

NHS DATA LOSS SCANDAL DEEPENS WITH FURTHER 162,000 FILES MISSING

SBS was then obstructive and unhelpful to NHS England in the inquiry it then instigated, the NAO found... READ MORE›

MPS URGE ACTION ON LENGTHY WAIT FOR AUTISM DIAGNOSIS

MPs urge action on lengthy wait for autism diagnosis... READ MORE›

GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL 'FAILING' INTERSEX PATIENTS

It also claimed that operations were taking place on intersex patients at Gosh without first discussing their cases with an expert panel at the hospital... READ MORE›

ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL PUT IN SPECIAL MEASURES AFTER PATIENT DEATHS

During this inspection and in our previous visits to the Royal Cornwall hospital we have found persistent evidence of care that falls below those standards... READ MORE›

CHESHIRE HOSPITAL STOPS SPINAL SURGERY AFTER 'SERIOUS INCIDENTS'

Spinal operations will not resume at Warrington and Halton hospitals NHS foundation trust in Cheshire until an external investigation into surgical practice has finished... READ MORE›

STROKE PATIENTS IN WALES COULD DIE BECAUSE THROMBECTOMY NOT AVAILABLE

Twenty stroke patients from Wales have undergone coiling since May in hospitals in Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, Plymouth and Southampton... READ MORE›

NHS NURSES ARE TOO BUSY TO CARE FOR PATIENTS PROPERLY, RESEARCH SHOWS

Survey of 30,000 nurses finds 53 percent fear quality of care is suffering, and some patients are being left to die alone... READ MORE›

HOSPITAL BOSSES FORCED TO CHANT 'WE CAN DO THIS' OVER A&E TARGETS

Trust leaders say they were left feeling 'bullied and humiliated' by the incident at a meeting to improve performance... READ MORE›

LEAK SHOWS 'DEVASTATING' IMPACT OF PLANNED NHS CUTS IN LONDON

Now we learn detailed proposals for north London involve shocking restrictions on care quality and access for patients... READ MORE›

VIRGIN CARE WINS ?700M CONTRACT TO RUN 200 NHS AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES

Virgin Care has been handed the contract by both Bath and North East Somerset NHS clinical commissioning group and Conservative-led Bath and North East Somerset council... READ MORE›

'IT WAS MANIC': PATIENTS DESCRIBE MELTDOWN AT WORCESTERSHIRE HOSPITAL

Senior doctor calls health service 'broken' after deaths of two patients left to wait on trolleys at Worcestershire Royal hospital... READ MORE›

MAY'S SCAPEGOAT ATTEMPT COULD SPARK MASS RESIGNATIONS, SAYS TOP GP

Dr Kailash Chand says GPs are rightly angry at government effort to shift blame for NHS crisis on to them with seven-day threat... READ MORE›

BODY FOUND IN BRISTOL MOTHER AND BABY SEARCH

Avon and Somerset police said Ms Bevan's family had been informed... READ MORE›

SHOCK FIGURES SHOW TORY PLANS ARE 'MAKING SOCIAL CARE WORSE'

Under the Better Care Fund councils receive money, mainly from the NHS budget, in return for introducing schemes to reduce demand for hospital care... READ MORE›

NHS WAITING TIMES 'DRIVING PEOPLE TO TURN TO PRIVATE TREATMENT'

The findings come as health service bosses gather in Manchester for the opening of NHS England's annual two-day NHS Expo... READ MORE›

NHS ACCUSED OF COVERING UP HUGE DATA LOSS THAT PUT THOUSANDS AT RISK

NHS England has quietly launched an inquiry to discover how many patients have been affected... READ MORE›

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HOSPITAL DECLARES 'MAJOR INCIDENT'

Related Stories Colchester Hospital has declared a major incident following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission CQC ... READ MORE›

HOSPITALS IN ENGLAND TOLD TO PUT OPERATIONS ON HOLD TO FREE UP BEDS

A reduction of elective hospital activity in the run-up to Christmas is standard practice, and well rehearsed by NHS providers... READ MORE›

MEDIEVAL CITY 'DETECTED' WITH NO DIG

The latest scanning techniques were used to uncover a network of buildings at the 11th Century Old Sarum near Salisbury, Wiltshire... READ MORE›

'I WAS THE FIRST BABY DELIVERED BY THE NHS. IT HAS SAVED MY LIFE EIGHT TIMES'

Bevan visits Park hospital in Davyhulme, now Trafford general hospital, which becomes known as the birthplace of the NHS ... READ MORE›

'MY FRAIL MUM WAS FORCED TO WAIT ON THE FLOOR FOR EIGHT HOURS'

The NHS staff there were working flat out to deal with the patients around them... READ MORE›

HOSPITALS ARE IN STATE OF 'WAR', UK GOVERNMENT ADVISER SAYS

The percentage of patients given hospital treatment within 18 weeks has also fallen below 90 percent for the first time since March 2011... READ MORE›

NHS WARNS OF 'DANGEROUS' BEDS SHORTAGE THIS WINTER

More patients' lives will be at risk because of long waiting periods, trusts say... READ MORE›

AREAS OF NHS WILL IMPLODE THIS WINTER, EXPERT WARNS

Data from NHS England for the summer also showed hospitals are missing key targets for cancer cases, routine operations and ambulance response times... READ MORE›

HOTEL BAD REVIEW 'FINE' SCRAPPED

However, Blackpool Trading Standards said its officers had now spoken to the hotel's management team, who have agreed not to levy these fines in the future... READ MORE›

40% OF HOSPITALS ISSUE ALERT IN FIRST WEEK OF NEW YEAR

It sets out what steps trusts should take to manage the large numbers of patients... READ MORE›

NHS CHIEFS SOFTEN 'BRUTAL' COST-CUTTING PLAN AFTER HUGE BACKLASH

NHS bosses have been forced to backtrack on controversial plans to impose brutal cost-cutting measures that involved delaying operations, denying patients treatment and closing hospital wards... READ MORE›

ALMOST UNTREATABLE CPE POSES SERIOUS THREAT TO PATIENTS DOCTORS WARN

In Manchester and London, dealing with CPE has cost NHS trusts almost ?10m... READ MORE›

'LETHAL FAILURES' LED TO BABY DEATHS

Into Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust found 20 major failures in care from 2004 to 2013 at Furness General Hospital... READ MORE›

NHS TRANSFORMATION PLANS MAY BE USED AS COVER FOR CUTS, SAYS BMA

Dr Mark Porter, the BMA council chair, said Improving patient care must be the number one priority for these plans... READ MORE›

ARCTIC BLAST HITS CANADA AND US

The National Weather Service said the snow should begin to ease on Wednesday... READ MORE›

JEREMY HUNT ORDERS YEARLY STUDY OF 'AVOIDABLE' HOSPITAL DEATHS

The independent health secretary jeremy hunt orders annual review of avoidable deaths in nhs hospitals 2 hrs ago... READ MORE›

NHS ACCUSED OF KEEPING SECRET ITS PLANS TO CUT SERVICES

An NHS England spokesman accused 38 Degrees of a rehash of months-old claims ... READ MORE›

193,000 NHS PATIENTS A MONTH WAITING BEYOND TARGET TIME FOR SURGERY

Some NHS hospital trusts are leaving notably large proportions of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for certain forms of surgery... READ MORE›

MORE PATIENTS WAITING TOO LONG IN A&E DESPITE IT BEING NHS PRIORITY

NHS ambulance services yet again breached response time targets, which require them to reach 75 percent of the most seriously ill patients within eight minutes... READ MORE›

HUNDREDS OF PATIENTS POTENTIALLY HARMED BY UNDELIVERED NHS MAIL

Of the 1,788 patients who may have been harmed as a result, 333 have since died... READ MORE›

MAN ADMITS KILLING BOY HE MET ONLINE

Breck bednar stabbing lewis daynes admits schoolboy's murder... READ MORE›