Spot checks threat to NHS trusts
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Hospital spot checks may be conducted amid concerns on standards of elderly care, the health watchdog warns.
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Calls for investigation into overnight allowance that is 'taken on trust'
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The NHS has launched a crackdown on verbal attacks on staff in its latest bid to combat rising levels of abuse.
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Vulnerable children subjected to 'inappropriate and invasive' tests, hearing told.
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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A health trust says a Â£500,000 funding gap to staff a cardiac unit could lead to cuts in services.
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.
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Parents-to-be are urged to be cautious about commercial firms offering ultrasound scans of their unborn baby.
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Many NHS trusts face debts this year - but the health service as a whole will break even, figures forecast.
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A health trust may have to bring in new practices to better monitor the hospital bug Clostridium difficile.
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The NHS is to come under pressure to weed out ineffective and obsolete treatments, by the drugs watchdog.
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Calls for a revamp of the NHS in London has sparked concerns over wider changes to the health service.
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Health secretary warns four NHS hospitals over persistent poor service to patients.
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A HOSPITAL has taken two years to tell hundreds of former patients they may be at risk of HIV or hepatitis. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London suspended a test in 2002 for fear it could spread deadly blood viruses.
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Protests against cuts in the NHS are threatening to rival the rebellion against the poll tax, campaigners warn.
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NHS boards are to conduct an audit of all GP practices amid concerns about vaccines in Aberdeen.
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The majority of NHS trusts are not giving diabetics enough help in managing the condition at home, a watchdog says.