You're more likely to die if admitted to hospital during the weekend. It's a shocking truth, and one that's explored further in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine today. Last year, as Pete blogged at the time, the 2011 Dr Foster Hospital Guide discovered that emergency patients are 10 per cent more likely to die if admitted at the weekend. Today's report goes further ...

Seven hospital trusts will get a £1.5 billion taxpayer bail-out because they are at "severe risk" of failing patients, the Department of Health said today.

John Lewis-style partnership runs hospital that would otherwise have faced closure

By Tim Lezard, from Union News GMB members vote to ballot for strike action. When organiser Carole Vallelly suggested GMB members at a local hospital sign a collective grievance against bullying at work, she was expecting a dozen or so to add their names. So when the petition was returned with 109 signatories, she was

Circle’s takeover of Hinchingbrooke stops short of full privatisation but it is seen as a test case that could pave the way for other cash-strapped NHS hospitals

The dispute over recognition for GMB with Carillion Facilities Management at Great Western Hospital (GWH) in Swindon raises important issues related to privatisation of services in the NHS. GMB is a general union that organises all grades in the NHS, and has a national recognition agreement with the NHS. In several hospitals GMB has significant

Being a nurse is a tough job, and we all admire those who have a calling to care for others. But when a loved one is sick in hospital we quite understandably worry and want the best for them. One of the most important tasks of government is to ensure that good standards of hospital

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, said in response to David Cameron's announcement on hospital care:

Nurses will be told to do regular ward rounds and patients encouraged to carry out inspections as part of a drive to improve hospital standards in England.

Some health fanatics want everyone from GPs to hospital porters to lecture to us about our lifestyles.