Health leaders in Yorkshire are considering options for running an emergency department without dedicated consultants. Scarborough Hospital, which is run … Read more
Patients are being put up in a hospital gym after a surge in A&E cases led to a shortage of … Read more
The NHS recorded its worst ever performance in the first month of the year as services struggled to cope with … Read more
A hospital has been placed on the highest level of alert as it battles to control demand from patients and … Read more
Starting in early December each year, so-called NHS ‘winter pressures’ make the headlines. Attention invariably tends to be focused solely … Read more
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence document, reproduced by HSJ today, suggested A&E departments needed to build a … Read more
The dire state of care for children with mental illnesses is revealed today, as figures show the numbers arriving at … Read more
Just 3.6 per cent of patients took up over a third of all bed capacity in acute hospitals in England … Read more
New figures, which show that last weekend, 12 NHS trusts were so full they did not have a single bed … Read more
The number of patients who are trapped in hospital despite being fit to leave has reached an all-time high, putting … Read more