Hundreds of thousands of peope are treated in hospitals by the NHS each year and in most cases the treatment they receive is perfectly acceptable...

Profit-Led Drug Shortage Exposed The Department of Health has reacted strongly against the discovery that a NHS trust sold drugs for export to Europe, making a profit of £300,000...

Good news as MRSA infection cases fall The number of MRSA cases has dropped by a third compared with the same period last year, official figures from the Health Protection Agency have shown...

Are you lucky enough to be registered with an NHS dentist They're increasingly rare now and if you're not already registered, you could have quite a struggle to find a dentist offering NHS facilities...

Parents in the good old days used to give their children 21st birthday presents to be set aside for the prevention of future toothache...

Why surgeons/doctors who leave equipment inside patients are creating big problems for the NHS Millions of pounds in compensation is being paid out by the NHS to patients who leave operating theatres with surgical equipment left accidentally inside them, and this is starting to cause the NHS major problems as people sue for medical negligenc compensation...

It may not be a surprise to many people who use NHS dentistry on a regular basis, but a recent study has revealed that NHS dentistry has actually got worse since a reform was introduced by the government less than half a decade ago...

The announcement that NHS patients can now ‘top up’ their cancer treatment by buying cancer drugs privately is good news for franchisees of not-for-profit medical insurer WPA...

To safeguard my family I took out a Dental Plan which seemed too good and it proved to be so initially...

A visit to the dentist is bad enough never mind trying to fund it It is virtually impossible to find a dentist who will take new patients on the NHS...

If you read newspapers on a regular basis, you will not have failed to notice the frequent articles on the growing problems being encountered in the area of dentistry for the British public...

If you’ve picked up a newspaper recently, you’ll be fully aware of the case involving the death of the young boy who was living in north London and is known in court and in the media as ‘Baby P’...

More and more patients are deciding to sue the NHS for clinical negligence This demonstrates that people are more aware of their rights and better informed about the service levels they should expect from the National Health Service...

Healthcare is something that all of us will need at some point in our lives and within the UK there are two ways of going about getting the treatment that you need...

The NHS has recently announced that their waiting lists for operations and other treatments are at an all time low...

The Cumbria Times and Star has reported on what they describe as a unique proposal which will see hospitals in north Cumbria working in partnership with South African healthcare company Netcare...

Publication of the Healthcare Commission's long-awaited report into the quality of care provided by independent sector treatment centres (ISTC's) has been delayed still further...

The funding crisis in the National Health Service is so dire that at least 4,000 frontline jobs might be axed say the Royal College of Nursing...