On July 5, 1948, the National Health Service was launched. It was designed to provide free health care at the point of delivery, based on the principle that, according to health minister Aneurin ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting will deliver a speech setting out new rules around pay and NHS spending on agency staff.

Watch live as Wes Streeting announces government plans to name and shame failing NHS hospitals as part of a package of ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting gives reassurance over the state of the National Health Service during a speech at the NHS ...

As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the UK government crack down on underage and disposable vaping, Brits are getting ready to hear what will come of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. But with the vast ...

Two nurses adjust the mirror above the bed of an immobile young patient at a hospital in Inverness As the National Health Service turns 70, BBC Scotland highlights some of the key milestones in ...

Was Keir Starmer right to claim agency staff cost the NHS ‘£5,000 a shift’? The government hasn’t said what data his claim was based on, but he may have been referring to figures from a Labour party ...

Rishi Sunak says the government’s “cutting waiting lists”. That’s true in the case of some specific NHS waiting lists, but not for the main list overall. Maria Caulfield told Parliament that an ...