There are around 117,500 acute medical and surgical adult beds available within the NHS in England. Some bed frame procurement in the NHS comes through NHS Supply Chain, and some comes through other ...

Elderly patients are being shunted between hospital wards ‘like parcels’ because of a shortage of beds, say doctors who have warned the current system is on 'the brink of collapse'. Frail patients are ...

England’s health-worker shortage is so severe that the National Health Service can’t staff “virtual wards” that were meant to relieve the burden on its struggling hospitals. Plans to roll out ...

Check your local hospital's ranking with our interactive table ENGLAND’S worst-ranked hospital, where crumbling wards are propped up with metal poles, failed to spot signs babies were seriously ill, ...

The number of mentally-ill children treated in non-specialist wards in Scotland has risen, latest figures show. The lack of psychiatric care facilities in Scotland has been blamed after almost 100 ...

Proposals to relocate specialist cancer care to a different hospital have been slammed by former patients and their relatives ...

Nearly 23,000 people have signed a petition to keep specialist cancer care at a South London hospital that the NHS wants to ...

Changes to mental health care for older people have been put forward, with a focus on community-based support. Black Country ...