Hospital overhaul 'under attack'
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Specialist hospital units will have to close and moved to super regional hospitals, leading doctors say.
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Reforms to ensure more people have access to NHS dentists are at risk of failing, a watchdog says.
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Nearly all doctors, nurses and managers think their hospitals need to be made safer for patients, a poll suggests.
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The NHS will be at risk unless more is done to combat obesity and increase productivity, a report says.
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Hospitals accused of keeping thousands of seriously ill patients in 'holding patterns'
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Fears are raised over the handling of the NHS as figures show emergency readmission rates to hospital are rising.
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Media & professional: Government changes to the health service have been 'a fiasco', member of Gordon Brown's campaign team says.
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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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More must be done to ensure patients do not stay in hospital longer than needed, a report finds.
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Patient care has suffered, say unions as Guardian analysis shows extent of underspend.
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NHS inspectors have issued their first warning to hospital bosses for breaching the NHS hygiene code.
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Mental health inpatients have to put up with poor and untherapeutic conditions on the wards, a survey finds.
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Serious failings in healthcare provision at the Yarl's Wood asylum centre are highlighted in a report.
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The struggles of a venerable Atlanta charity hospital mirror those of other public hospitals across the nation.
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Doctors accuse the government of trying to privatise general practice over guidance on new practices.
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Legal action is launched over a row about whether a new hospital plans to leave enough space between beds to prevent the spread of infections.
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CHICAGO -- A medical accreditation group says too many patients are waking up during surgery and hospitals need to do more to prevent the incidents.