Relatives of vulnerable and infirm patients are excluded during mealtimes at some hospitals, say Assembly Members.

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.

Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding the welfare debate in the House of Commons, said:

The number of admitted patients who waited longer than 18 weeks in Southampton has increased by 70% under this Tory-led Government, and it still increasing now. John Denham, Labour MP for Southampton Itchen, said: "In Southampton we have now seen waiting-times increase by 70% since David Cameron came to power. This is bad news, but the Tory-led Government's plan to encourage local hospitals t...

Lawyers are earning "success fees" totalling £66 million a year for helping patients to sue the NHS, new figures have revealed.

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in response to a 20% increase in the number of cancelled urgent operations, said:

Strategy group recommends matching patients’ genes with their treatment

The review into the PIP breast implant scandal is looking at introducing an insurance scheme to help protect future cosmetic surgery patients, the man leading the review tells the BBC.

The work and pensions secretary said Macmillan Cancer Support was wrong to claim 7,000 cancer patients would see their incomes fall by £94 a week from April.