The Prime Minister has committed to making sure the NHS is fully staffed at weekends - creating a seven-day service. But that might not be as simple as it sounds. :: What is the plan? For decades the ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer clash on the government's NHS record at Prime Minister's Questions On the government's pledge to cut NHS waiting lists, Starmer asks Sunak if he's glad he ...

As health secretary Aneurin Bevan opened Park Hospital in Manchester in 1948, the future of healthcare in the UK changed forever. The new national service meant everybody could get treatment, whether ...

The government is right to say that the challenges facing the health service require a long-term plan. But there is little clarity over how it will work in practice. Public satisfaction with the NHS ...

Questions have been asked about the departure of an NHS chief executive and whether it was linked to him looking into "alleged criminality" within a wing of the NHS in Wales. We had already reported ...

Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has questioned the legality of government plans that will see operation waiting times increase. He told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday show he has written to ...

Just because the National Health Service is fully devolved, which means the Scottish government gets to make day-to-day choices about how it is run, that doesn't mean it is protected from ...

Millions of women in England are set to benefit as NHS health checks will, for the first time, include questions about menopause. Health Secretary Wes Streeting stated that women have been "suffering ...

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