There are around 117,500 acute medical and surgical adult beds available within the NHS in England. Some bed frame procurement in the NHS comes through NHS Supply Chain, and some comes through other ...

Elderly patients are being shunted between hospital wards ‘like parcels’ because of a shortage of beds, say doctors who have warned the current system is on 'the brink of collapse'. Frail patients are ...

An NHS hospital has been forced to shut its wards to new patients and restrict visitor numbers due to a norovirus outbreak. Bedford Hospital in the Highlands closed both wards to new admissions and ...

England’s health-worker shortage is so severe that the National Health Service can’t staff “virtual wards” that were meant to relieve the burden on its struggling hospitals. Plans to roll out ...

Proposals to relocate specialist cancer care to a different hospital have been slammed by former patients and their relatives ...

A £30m revamp of a West Midlands mental health hospital for older adults that has eliminated dormitory-style accommodation has been completed. Edward Street Hospital in West Bromwich is being ...

Check your local hospital's ranking with our interactive table ENGLAND’S worst-ranked hospital, where crumbling wards are propped up with metal poles, failed to spot signs babies were seriously ill, ...

Transgender women will not have the right to use female-only hospital wards after a ruling clarifying such decisions should be based on biological sex, a minister has said. Equalities minister and ...

LSA guidance evaluates categories of technologies that are already in widespread use within the NHS. It assesses whether price variations between technologies in a category are justified by ...