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Patients in England attending major A&E departments for treatment were seen within four hours in fewer than two thirds of cases and people can check how their local trust compares

Rebecca McManus says her smartwatch's heart rate alert feature may have saved her life after she was taken to hospital where doctors identified two pulmonary embolisms

Lara Heaney's big day turned to tragedy when her father informed her that her mum had sadly passed away, just hours before the ceremony was set to start

Prime Minister's trip home was an attempt to show he hadn’t always been richer than King Charles III – and gave him something to say about the NHS crisis that was 'really personal'

Once again, people with no lived experience of disability have decided the solution is really easy - they are focussing on the wrong thing

Experts believe an unforeseen post-Covid plunge in vaccine uptake could be to blame for the unwelcome rise in Dickensian ailments such as syphilis and tuberculosis

Kelly hasn't felt she can enjoy her pregnancy as stark statistics show Black women are almost four times more likely to die from childbirth, alongside other higher risk factors

Nicola Kelleher's partner Bradley Benjamin has a hereditary kidney disease which has seen him suffer on dialysis for years - and they didn't want the same outcome for their child

Jolanta Czapska-Hill used her position as a midwife to 'jump the queue' for blood tests before she was eventually caught out by laboratory staff, a panel has found

Rebecca McManus, from Clydebank, received a warning from her Apple device after her resting heart rate jumped to 154bpm when she walked up two flights of stairs

Dental hygienist Emma Taylor, 33, who now communicates by head and hand movements, is determined to get better so she can be a proper mother to her daughter Ophelia

Workers' leaders today demand a pay hike for carers in a move aimed at filling the 165,000 vacancies blighting the sector and easing gender and race pay gaps

While neurosurgeon Mr Chan was intricately scraping a tumour out of Izaac's brain, the 18-year-old began having a seizure - and medics were forced to make a difficult decision

Amanda Davies, 48, said it was "awful" constantly needing to go to the toilet at work with what doctors believed was the onset of the menopause before she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer

As part of Bladder Cancer Awareness Month, medical negligence experts have shared some 'red flag' symptoms you should never ignore – including ones that can be mistaken for other conditions

Measles is a highly infectious disease that can lead to serious problems such as pneumonia, meningitis, and on rare occasions, long-term disability or death. Symptoms include a high fever, sore red watery eyes and a blotchy red-brown rash.

Around 16,800 people die from bowel cancer every year in the UK, and Dr Deborah Lee has highlighted the warning signs that strike during the later stages of the disease

It all started as a headache. Then Emma Taylor was placed in an induced coma to give birth and diagnosed with a brain tumour - now she vows to make it home to her baby girl

People with allergies are being warned their life-saving adrenaline injector may not work if they have been dropped and could either fail to activate, or release the dose of adrenaline too early

Between January and March, an excess of 1 ,461 sufferers died, up from 456 last year. Total excess deaths from the disease since January last year hit 8,586, according to Diabetes UK

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting described the latest Tory failure as another 'broken promise', adding: 'So much for Rishi Sunak's relaunch.'

Rishi Sunak notably refused to repeat the vow to recruit 6,000 more GPs by the end of next year on a visit to Southampton to promote his new pharmacies blueprint

Brits can simply find out how old is their heart compared to their real age by completing an online NHS test that asks a number of questions about the person's health

The potentially life-threatening condition can occur when sitting still for an extended period of time - such as on a long-haul flight - but there are steps you can take to reduce the risk

A "radical" overhaul of GP services means pharmacists have new powers to prescribe drugs for seven common conditions, as women will also be able to get oral contraceptive pills over the counter