A rural GP surgery is building more clinical spaces after receiving funding from the NHS. Axbridge and Wedmore Medical ...

Thousands of NHS knee replacement operations are canceled at short notice every year, many for avoidable reasons, according to a new study. This costs the NHS millions of pounds and increases waiting ...

Using a robotic platform, such as the da Vinci Xi system at QAH, further increases precision. For example, patients with a burst or blocked bowel often need a stoma bag and several operations to ...

Hospitals in England have been instructed to stop the practice of discharging patients in the middle of the night in order to free up beds. The NHS medical director Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, has written ...

Health chiefs have hailed a robotic surgery revolution that will slash recovery times and help to cut NHS waiting lists. The “trailblazing technology” sees surgeons control a robotic system to operate ...

More than four million patients are waiting for planned NHS surgery - the highest level since records began in 2007, figures show. The data, combined with missed targets such as waiting times at A&E, ...

A woman whose long-term dentist went private said it is "wonderful" that a new NHS surgery has opened in her town. Heather Bubb, 77, had been with her dentist in Wellington in Somerset for more than ...

The family of a woman from Southampton who took her own life has called for better logging of calls to the NHS about mental ...

Two new studies published in Anaesthesia analyzing pain and other factors connected with day surgery in the UK show that ...

A bodybuilder who claimed a botched NHS surgery left him too weak to even use the kettle is jailed after being caught out by videos showing him lifting weights and playing rugby. Sean Murphy, 39, sued ...

Health experts have warned that it could take many months before the National Health Service (NHS) is able to deliver a full service, after redeploying resources to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. As ...

Thousands of NHS knee replacement operations are cancelled at short notice every year, many for avoidable reasons, according to a new study published today [1 December]. This costs the NHS millions of ...