People eligible for NHS continuing health care have a legal right to a personal health budget, yet uptake remains low and it varies significantly across the country. With the 10-year plan aiming to ...

Nuffield Health Parkside Hospital has become the first independent hospital in the UK to introduce Histolog®, a real-time ...

A private hospital in Exeter has confirmed it is providing its facilities for patients requiring urgent surgery for cancer and other urgent health conditions to help the NHS. Nuffield Health Exeter ...

Some families have taken local health organisations to court to win funding after being turned down. Continuing healthcare is a package of health and social care provided outside of hospital, which ...

The list in England has fallen for the third month in a row, with an estimated 7.25 million treatments waiting to be carried out at the end of January, relating to 6.13 million patients. This is down ...

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With Yvette Cooper announced this week as the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Thea Stein and Leonora Merry ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...