NHS hospital performance in England: Latest numbers and trends

Some 180,329 people had been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end of September.
European Medical Journal

NHS Trials 15-Minute Blood Test to Fast-Track Diagnosis in Children

NHS hospitals are trialling a 15-minute blood test that quickly distinguishes viral and bacterial infections in children, ...

Hospitals knew a heart device led to more patients' deaths - but they kept using it

LVADs have been life-savers for decades and, for a number of years, hospitals had a choice of two devices - the HeartWare ...

Alice, 22, died at NHS hospital where staff ‘played on their phones instead of looking after patients’

ALICE Figueiredo died in a mental health unit where a former patient said staff were sometimes on their phones instead of ...
CNN

London’s ICU nurses detail ‘diluted’ care, depression and disaster during the UK’s deadly second wave

Last summer, when England’s first peak of the coronavirus pandemic had subsided, Fazilah, an ICU nurse at a central London hospital, sat down to write her resignation letter. For months, she says, a ...
Ars Technica

London hospitals declare emergency following ransomware attack

A ransomware attack that crippled a London-based medical testing and diagnostics provider has led several major hospitals in the city to declare a critical incident emergency and cancel non-emergency ...

Woman who took her own life was ‘treated cruelly’ at NHS hospital

Alice Figueiredo, 22, took her own life while she was a patient in a mental health unit at Goodmayes Hospital in Redbridge, ...

Hospital trust fined £500k over death of patient

A hospital trust has been fined more than £500,000 and a ward manager given a six-month suspended sentence over the death of ...

NHS ward manager sentenced and trust fined more than £500,000 over death of patient

Alice Figueiredo was 22 years old when she took her own life at a London hospital in 2015. Her mother said earlier this year ...