Nearly 200,000 patients a year are being shuttled between hospital wards during the night because of increasing demand on beds, figures revealed today.
New figures indicate that almost 4,000 staff made redundant from the NHS in England, before last year’s major restructuring, have since been re-employed.
Doctors at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital are calling for the rules to be changed to allow parents to donate the organs of newborn babies who die, in the hope of saving the lives of other sick children.
The Care Quality Commission would be able to prosecute providers without warning for the most serious care failings under proposals issued for consultation by government.
Hospital and care home managers who allow neglect and abuse to take place on their watch could face criminal prosecution and unlimited fines under new Government plans designed to restore trust in the health service after a series of high profile NHS scandals.
Oxytocin reduces sufferers unhealthy obsessions with food and weight and makes them less fixated on damaging emotions, researchers found.
Drugs taken to lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes may have fewer side-effects than claimed, researchers say.
Families and the NHS are being placed under unsustainable pressure to plug the gap created by major cuts to care for elderly and disabled people, the public spending watchdog has warned.
Patients with life-threatening and serious diseases will be able to get new drugs years before they would normally be available under a Government-backed scheme.
Hinchingbrooke hospital, Cambridgeshire, which is run by a private health firm, was cited by the CQC boss as a model that other hospitals could follow.
