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 ...

Failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care and ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The outgoing boss of Scotland’s biggest healthboard was accused of trying to manipulate an report into links between patient ...