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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Closure of a mental health ward in West Cumbria has been branded "shambolic" as new data reveals that Cumberland has the fourth ...

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, ...

patient needs and safety, including whether the bed frames have features to reduce injuries to the person using the bed, patient infections and patient falls the preferences of the multidisciplinary ...

Britain’s National Health System will ban transgender patients from female-only wards — as its secretary strikes back at “wokery” in medicine. Steve Barclay, 51, vowed to update the NHS constitution ...