New figures show bosses are regularly hiring nurses for as much as £160 an hour to cope with the crippling shortages that put patients lives at risk.
Black and South Asian people in England are less aware of the warning signs of cancer than white people, according to research led by King’s College London.
People in Wales need to “wake up” and take responsibility for their health to avoid disease and early death, leading experts have warned.
Alcohol should have a calorie content label in order to reduce obesity, according to public health doctors.
All over Freetown, buildings, vehicles and people are being commandeered in the fight against Ebola.
In the suburb of Wilberforce, in an old building for the telecommunications company Airtel, a dozen students loiter on a wall waiting to relieve staff from the trauma at the Ebola hotline they are manning.
Vulnerable patients in England will get better support in the community as part of plans to ease pressure on hospitals, ministers say.
Mum-of-three Karen Lewis is used to the reaction she gets when she tells people she has dementia. ‘They normally say: ‘But you don’t look old enough.’ I just shrug because I didn’t think I was old enough either.’
The disease now kills more than three times as many women as breast cancer and thousands more than either heart attacks or stroke.
Devastating consequences of mistakes by NHS staff are exposed today.
The Medical Research Council (MRC), which commissioned the joint report by think-tank International Longevity Centre UK, said social stigma was hampering diagnosis, care and research.
