A study of NHS-funded hip and knee replacement operations has found fewer surgical admissions within NHS hospitals and rising waiting times even as NHS contracts with private providers have expanded.

For someone waiting for a hip replacement, the NHS waiting list is not an abstract policy problem. It is the difference between walking to the shops ...

Thousands of Britons who have had hip replacements have been warned that there is a risk that their implant could malfunction. An investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory ...

Obese patients are being denied life-changing hip and knee replacements and left in pain in a bid to slash spiralling NHS costs, The Independent can reveal. One-third of NHS areas in England and ...

'I couldn't believe what I was hearing' ...

A LOCAL woman suffered delayed recovery and had to have additional surgery after surgeons wrongly implanted mismatched ...

Weight and body mass index (BMI) policies introduced by NHS commissioning groups in England are inappropriate and worsening health inequalities, according to a new study published in BMC Medicine ...

New research has found that weight/body mass index (BMI) policies introduced by NHS commissioning groups in England are associated with a decrease in knee replacement surgery and may be contributing ...

Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth told the Mirror: “The numbers searching for private health care should be a warning light that without action to rebuild the NHS we’re heading for a two-tier ...

There are significant variations in healthcare spending and care delivery across NHS hospitals in England and Wales following hip fracture, a new study aimed at understanding how hospital care impacts ...

Weight and body mass index (BMI) policies introduced by NHS commissioning groups in England are inappropriate and worsening health inequalities, according to a new study published in BMC Medicine ...