The Latest Breaking News from NHS

NHS restructure is greatest danger to Streeting’s effort to revive service

Health secretary still confident of success but critics say scrapping of NHS England has been ‘a total car crash’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29

NHS to miss targets for cutting A&E wait times and performance in England

Exclusive: Health secretary’s pledges in doubt as analysis shows health service will not deliver key improvements

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29

‘A cruel penalty’: disabled people face lower benefit payments if conditions not deemed lifelong

Forthcoming rules mean debilitating conditions may not meet strict ‘severe and lifelong’ criteria, say charities

The Guardian - UK · Mar 29

Removing both ovaries and operating on wrong patient ‘among 661 times NHS surgeons made errors’

New data reveals serious harm caused to patients in 7% of cases in five years

The Independent UK · Mar 28

UK ‘weeks away’ from medicine shortages if Iran war continues, experts say

Concern that supply chain disruption could hit health essentials – and prices – from painkillers to cancer treatment

The Guardian - UK · Mar 28

Health chiefs urged to offer meningitis catch-up jabs to teens as true scale of worldwide death toll revealed

Although cases have declined since 1990, it’s not enough to meet WHO goals to reduce global deaths by 50 per cent

The Independent UK · Mar 28

John Swinney to tell Edinburgh rally of ‘prize’ of Scottish independence

The Scottish First Minister and SNP leader will be speaking at the Believe in Scotland rally on Saturday.

Evening Standard · Mar 28

Sarwar pledges to slash NHS waiting times and end 8am GP appointment ‘scramble’

The Scottish Labour leader said his party would ‘build a better future for Scotland’.

Evening Standard · Mar 28

Cancer patients and pregnant women face ‘life-threatening’ delays due to sonographer shortage

Sonographers conduct ultrasound scans which are essential to pregnancy care and are also used in the diagnosis of cancer

The Independent UK · Mar 28

Pregnant women and cancer patients ‘at risk’ because of sonographer shortage

Concerns have been raised about a shortfall in workers who help scan pregnant women and cancer patients.

Evening Standard · Mar 28