Hundreds of women have been recalled for further breast cancer screening by a hospital over fears that a junior doctor failed to follow proper procedu...

Concerns that two "junior" surgeons were in charge of children's congenital heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) prompted the decision to su...

Mortality figures which led to children's heart surgery being suspended at Leeds General Infirmary appeared to show the number of deaths was twice the...

A hospital at centre of a long-running row over the future of its children's heart services has unexpectedly suspended all congenital cardiac surgery ...

The Mid Staffs Public Inquiry report was published last week. It described "appalling care" that flourished because managers "put corporate self-interest and cost control ahead of patients and their safety". Patients were "let down" by a "lack of care, compassion, humanity and leadership".

A long overdue public inquiry into the appalling standards of care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust is complete. The findings are not unexpected.

A 51-year-old woman has been charged with a string of offences after a video appeared online of someone shouting abuse at two foreigners in a hospital...

Health officials say they are investigating claims a patient admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties was forced to do a 23-mile journey home ...

The number of people affected by an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug could have passed one million, new figures show. The number of laboratory-c...

The health watchdog has been forced to take action against a hospital trust which performed a surgery on the wrong patient. Within a month, Cambrid...

A man has been forced to have his penis removed five years after it was injected with olive oil to make it bigger. The unnamed 50-year-old was adm...

The mother of a baby girl who died after serious failures by hospital staff is to sue the NHS over her daughter's "preventable and predictable" death....

A rat caused around 40 operations to be cancelled at a hospital after it was found in an operating theatre. Pest controllers were called into King'...

A High Court judge has allowed a hospital trust's request to withhold life-saving treatment from a severely brain-damaged Muslim patient if his condit...