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London’s Guy’s Hospital is among first NHS hospitals to prescribe weight loss drug

Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, gave evidence to the Thirlwall Inquiry on Friday.

The NHS operational standard is that nearly all of A&E patients should be seen within four hours

Leeds Teaching Hospitals (LTH) NHS Trust said the number of neonatal deaths recorded as ‘potentially avoidable’ is very small.

The NHS Health Check is a free service for anyone between 40 and 75 in the UK and it's been found to catch heart disease and dementia early

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Patients are dying on hospital trolleys, and nurses are treating them in corridors. The very least we can do is get vaccinated, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

A severe flu wave has left hospitals overwhelmed and staff at breaking point. The Standard speaks to patients feeling the impact

A former Health Secretary once told me, with an understandable degree of despair, about the frustrations of being in ultimate charge of the NHS. He had all the policy levers at his disposal in his office, but however many he pushed, or pulled, nothing he did seemed to make any…

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It comes after a report from the Royal College of Nursing warned of a ‘corridor care crisis’ across the NHS.