2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (742+ words) Health Minister Robbie Butler has apologised for failings in the care of patients of former Belfast neurologist Michael Watt. The apology follows the publication of a final review into the care of patients who had died. Butler said meeting the…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (371+ words) A Guernsey trust has donated £150,000 for research into lung cancer diagnosis research at the University of Southampton. The money from the Jon Moulton Charity Trust will help assess whether people who have not responded to NHS requests to go for…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (472+ words) A strike involving operating theatre staff at four Greater Manchester hospitals has been called off after NHS bosses agreed to fresh talks. The UNISON union said the strike by more than 350 workers planned for Monday 14 September will not go ahead…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (389+ words) A private hospital's failure to provide preventative medication contributed to the death of Lady Joan Branson, an inquest has concluded. The 80-year-old, who was married to Sir Richard Branson, died on 24 November last year after suffering a cardiac arrest at…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1294+ words) Hospital corridors lined with patients on beds used to be a seasonal problem, linked to winter pressures such as flu. In recent years, though, such scenes have become a year-round issue across the UK. In Liverpool, nurses and doctors have…...

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5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (632+ words) A "happy and cheeky" baby boy with a rare skull condition is doing well a year after becoming the first in the world to be given a new type of treatment. One-year-old Rory Potter, from Chesterfield in Derbyshire, was diagnosed…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (369+ words) A mum says her seven-year-old son can "enjoy being a child again" after becoming one of the youngest people in the UK to undergo a rare life-saving pancreas procedure. Charlie, from Oxfordshire, was born with hereditary pancreatitis that led to…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (956+ words) Scots should not have to travel further for health care under the government's plans to cut the number of health boards from 14 to two, John Swinney has suggested. The BBC asked the first minister about the impact of such changes…...