The Scottish government ban on hospital parking charges came into effect on the 1st of January leaving England the only part of the UK where everyone has to pay to park on hospital car parks. Hospital car parks have been free to use in Wales since April and in Northern Ireland, chronically ill patients and their

Scrapping prescription charges for English cancer patients will mean they have more money to pay for hospital parking fees unlike cancer patients in Scotland or Wales where parking is free!

Justice - These statistics provide a picture of restricted patients detained in, admitted to and discharged from psychiatric hospitals in England and Wales in 2007. Some trend data will be available covering the period 1997-2007. Two year re-offending figures for those patients discharged from hospital for the first time between 1999 and 2005 will also be presented.

THE days of patients queuing at chip shops in their pyjamas could soon be at an end, with plans for a major overhaul of hospital food.

All hospital patients in England will be screened for the risk of potentially fatal blood clots under plans announced by the Department of Health.

An NHS hospital boss criticised the new computerised medical records system today, saying it had cost his trust an extra £10m and meant fewer patients could be seen. Andrew Way, chief executive of Hampstead's Royal Free hospital, in north-west London, said his staff were "incredibly disappointed" with the IT upgrade on trial at the hospital. The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) aims to...

Just one in 100 patients are asked how they were treated in hospital in some parts of the country according to official statistics revealed in the annual patient survey by the Healthcare Commission which regulates standards in the health service.

John Denham Will visit Southampton General Hospital to their catering operation in action. After taking up the cases of patients dissatisfied with the quality of the food they were being offered at Southampton General Hospital John Denham has been invited to see the catering operation first hand. John Denham will meet with patients, staff and management and be given the opportunity to see how the ...

Doctors say hospital patients have died as a result of new restrictions on medics' working hours brought in by the European Union.

The 100th hospital scheme to be built under the biggest hospital building programme in the history of the NHS - St Helens Hospital in Merseyside - has admitted its first patients. So far 131 hospitals have been built or are under construction as part of the scheme at a cost of £12 billion. Secretary of