Create a centralized database to make patient health records easily accessible by all NHS services, like hospitals, GP surgeries, and ambulances. These so-called "patient passports" are the main ...

The NHS “horror stories” keep coming, said Rachael Bletchly in the Daily Mirror: the 62-year-old Shropshire woman who spent ten hours on a path with a broken leg waiting for an ambulance; the family ...

It will cost £7m to fix an NHS IT system that led to as many as 14,600 patients being discharged from hospital without vital medical notes being sent to their GP, the government has admitted. HuffPost ...

The practice of medicine has changed profoundly since I started training as a surgeon 45 years ago – not the nature of the operating, or the anxiety and suffering of patients, but the way doctors work ...

Wes Streeting has called on the British Medical Association to be “friends, not foes” to help fix a broken NHS under the looming threat of tight budgets and the popularity of the Reform Party. The ...

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