In 2018/19 the Trust answered more than 1.4m emergency 999 and NHS 111 calls, with almost 290,000 patients taken to hospital, 21,500 helped and discharged over the phone and more than 100,000 ...
Dr Monaghan said that respiratory hubs - there are 34 across the North East and North Cumbria, 29 in just the North East - had made a real difference and helped support winter NHS services in ...
FlashAid partners with private ambulance services and can transport people to NHS or private hospitals. It launched a pilot service in west London and the Thames Valley in December and plans to ...
People have been warned that their health condition may no longer be treated via an NHS prescription due to changes. In an effort to trim unnecessary spending, the NHS has called time on ...
Hospitals in England are “close to full” – with a significant number of beds occupied by patients who are well enough to be discharged, NHS officials have warned. The pressure comes as ...
The 35-year-old attended Northampton general hospital for treatment for cellulitis but her care home would not take her back The NHS was forced ... bed because she had no care home to go to.
Only 10 areas saw the rate improve compared to figures five years ago. NHS North West London had the easiest access to dentists in the country with only 1,483 patients per dentist. The crisis ...
Affected products include cough syrup, paracetamol, eye drops, and sun cream, among others, which are no longer prescribed as a matter of course. As reported by Express.co.uk, the NHS initially ...
Prescriptions for a range of ‘over the counter’ remedies are no longer available on the NHS after a crackdown in recent years on unnecessary spending by the service on common ailments.
St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London, has had to shut three of its wards due to an outbreak of norovirus, while the NHS has reported extremely high case numbers. The move aims to minimise the ...