Patients will have a legal right to hospital treatment within 12 weeks and to complain about the standard of their care, under new laws unveiled by Scottish ministers.

Patients with mental health problems will be forced to undergo treatment or be returned to hospital by health practitioners.

Hospital admissions linked to alcohol problems have reached a record high, prompting fresh concern about the harm being caused by binge drinking. Hospitals in England admitted 1,173,386 patients for treatment for alcohol-related problems in 2010-11, NHS statistics show, up 9% on the 1,056,962 in 2009-10, the first time the figure topped 1 million. In 2002-03,

The BBC reports that the European Court of Justice’s Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi has said that patients who receive hospital treatment in another EU member state should be fully reimbursed by their home country. Mr.Mengozzi made the comments in reference to a case involving a resident of Spain, who had unplanned hospital treatment in France and is pressing for Spain to reimburse him.

David Cameron has pledged that under a Conservative government patients going into hospital for an operation or a course of treatment would be able to choose an individual named consultant A Conservative government would give patients the right to choose an individual named consultant for an operation or course of hospital treatment, David Cameron said today. Under current NHS rules in England, pa...

From today, England is the only country in the United Kingdom where cancer patients are charged to park their cars while receiving hospital treatment.

Fewer patients paid out of their own pocket for private hospital treatment last year as NHS waiting times fell and the economy began to falter

Patients are increasingly choosing where they seek NHS treatment threatening poorly performing hoptial units with closure figures show today.

Patients will travel for the best hospital treatment and accept major NHS changes if it improves care, a body representing health boards claims.

Moves to allow public and private hospitals to compete on price for the treatment of NHS patients will 'potentially endanger patients' lives', a leading health economist has warned