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Hospitals told to consider legal action against patients refusing to leave beds

NHS England has called on healthcare officials to consider taking legal action against patients who refuse to give up their hospital beds if further care options are available. Patient safety charities have raised concerns about the potential for ...

14 Jan 2022 at 17:55

At least one in four NHS trusts upped parking charges in two years to March 2024

At least one in four NHS trusts in England raised the cost of parking for either patients, staff or both in the two years to March 2024, according to new research. The increases were attacked by a patients’ charity as unfairly penalising people ...

21 Dec 2024 at 00:01

Streeting: NHS App upgrade to give patients more choice in bid to cut wait times

More NHS patients who need elective care will be able to decide where they are treated under new Government plans to slash waiting lists. The NHS App will be overhauled to give patients more choice under the elective reform plan, which is set ...

05 Jan 2025 at 00:01

Patients who can travel given opportunity to skip NHS queues

Patients caught up in the record backlog of NHS care could skip the queue at their local hospital if they are willing to travel to other parts of England for both private or NHS care, according to new NHS England plans. The NHS announced ...

10 Aug 2023 at 00:01

Plans to cut Royal Mail deliveries ‘could worsen patient safety risks’

Plans to cut the number of Royal Mail deliveries could worsen patient safety risks, the leaders of organisations including NHS Providers and Healthwatch England have said. Royal Mail has proposed that first class mail be kept as a ...

06 Apr 2024 at 11:26

Almost one in five has received or witnessed ‘corridor care’, poll finds

Almost one in five people in England has received or witnessed NHS care being delivered in non-medical areas – such as corridors or waiting rooms – in the last six months, according to a new survey. The poll, conducted for the ...

03 Feb 2025 at 00:01

Outpatient care ‘ineffective for both patients and staff’ – report

Pre-planned specialist care is “no longer fit for purpose” and needs to be reformed, leading medics have said. The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said that the current outpatient care service in the NHS – which includes ...

16 Apr 2025 at 00:01

NHS app has helped to save 1.5 million appointments from cancellation

Reform of the NHS app has resulted in 1.5 million fewer appointments being missed, ministers have revealed. This has helped to cut waiting times for elective surgery and other appointments, according to NHS England ...

28 Apr 2025 at 00:01

Record number of ‘foreign objects’ being left inside patients

Hospitals have logged a record number of “episodes” of people needing help after a surgical tool has been left inside them following an operation or procedure, according to new data analysis. Blunders involving a ...

04 Jan 2023 at 00:01

Poor emergency care ‘accepted as inevitable’ – leading medics and patient groups

Poor standards of care have been “normalised and accepted as inevitable” in emergency hospital care, a group of experts has warned. Leading medics and patient groups said that the NHS “got the winter it prepared ...

23 Jan 2025 at 16:04

Failing hospitals to be named and shamed in league tables under Government plans

Failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care and take control of finances, under Government plans. Health Secretary Wes Streeting is ...

13 Nov 2024 at 08:53

Almost half of NHS England waiting list patients yet to have initial appointment

Around three million people in England have had no further health care since being referred to a hospital waiting list, new data suggests. NHS England figures last month estimated 7.36 million treatments ...

02 Aug 2025 at 10:05

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