NHS crisis

Distracting sick children with toys and VR headsets during procedures could help ease NHS wait times, study suggestsStudy of 100 doctors suggests giving children toys could speed up proceduresTasks six minutes faster on average…

Patients struggle to find life-saving statins as pharmacies run short of the anti-cholesterol drugs as prices soreEight million Britons rely on statins to lower cholesterol and prevent  strokesPrices of atorvastatin have risen…

Women unable to get their usual hormone replacement therapy (HRT) due to shortages should not worry about switching to products that aren’t in short supply, top menopause doctors have advised.Demand for one HRT drug, Utrogestan 100mg, has…

You might be forgiven for thinking there aren't any GPs left in Britain.The 8am 'Glastonbury-esque' scramble for appointments, combined with the failure of face-to-face appointments to return to pre-pandemic levels, has left many patients…

Britain's crumbling NHS: SEWAGE is leaking into cancer wards, maternity units and A&Es, shock audit revealsInvestigation found 55 NHS trusts have reported incidents in the last 12 monthsLeeds Teaching Hospital reported…

Health chiefs have failed to purchase new pneumonia vaccines despite warnings that the NHS jab currently offered to over-65s is less effective, The Mail on Sunday has learned.The potentially life-threatening lung infection, which can hit…

NHS to roll-out breakthrough vaccine to tackle bronchiolitis-causing winter cough virus which puts 29,000 children and 18,000 adults in hospital each yearScientists said Britons will get new vaccine for respiratory syncytial…