Patients to conduct tests at home under remote supervision of NHS staff in bid to free up hospitals, David Cameron reveals.

NHS hit squads will swoop on hospitals where unusually high rates of death, infection and botched operations appear to be harming or killing patients. As the first healthcare system in the world to operate such a system, investigators from the Healthcare Commission, the NHS watchdog for England, will monitor hospitals using official data and 'soft intelligence' from complainants and whis...

The NHS Information Centre for health and social care - Information on uses of the Mental Health Act (and other relevant legislation) in NHS hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, and independent hospitals.

Patients and members of the public may sit on official bodies overseeing doctors and hospitals under revised plans to reorganise the NHS being drawn up by the Government.

Commenting on figures released today that reveal there have been 20,000 incidents of pest infestation in NHS hospitals in the past two years, Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson, Sandra Gidley said: "People will be revolted by this news and need to know that vermin control is stopping the spread of disease. "Patients have a right to expect our hospitals are made pest free. "The public needs reass...

Patients are using private hospitals at the expense of the NHS. However, this is a good thing. Despite the claims by doctors this is “losing” public money to the private sector: This is money that is being lost from the NHS. That can compromise services and patients should be told that by going private in this way

More evidence: The lives of 300 heart attack patients have been saved every year since competition was introduced to NHS hospitals, according to a new study. In more detail: The updated paper, published in The Economic Journal, looks at the effects of a more liberal NHS on 30-day mortality rates for patients diagnosed with Acute

The NHS is going to be publishing hospital death rates on the internet... The NHS is to make it easier to compare success and failure of English hospitals by publishing death rates and other tables on its own website. The Department of Health will publish the Mortality Ratio on the NHS Choices site, allowing patients to compare death rates at their nearest hospitals. The NHS says the move is part ...

The number of patients who contracted life-threatening infections in NHS hospitals has almost doubled in two years to a record level, official figures have shown.

Poor nutritional care in NHS hospitals was linked to 42 deaths and dozens more being seriously harmed in one year as reports of serious incidents soar, new figures show.