The number of NHS patients admitted for routine ops has dropped 82 per cent in a year and 1.5million have been forced to wait at least 18 weeks to start treatment, devastating statistics today ...

NHS hospitals should not perform routine operations on Covid patients within two months of them getting the virus, experts have advised. Despite warnings that the pandemic-fuelled backlog will double ...

A huge rise in the number of people suffering strokes and heart attacks yesterday put Exeter's Royal Devon and Exeter hospital on to the highest NHS level of black alert today. A third more patients ...

NHS patients should contribute towards the cost of some routine operations, a body of leading public health experts said today. The Association of Directors of Public Health believes people should ...

There were 330,434 patients waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at the end of the month, up by more than 5,800 from 324,615 in July. That number had also risen by more than 42,000 ...

THE boss of the NHS has said patients will have to wait longer for routine operations. Simon Stevens said urgent surgery such as for cancer had to take priority. Waits for hip, knee, hernia and ...

SCRAPPING routine hospital procedures for two months every winter could ease pressure on the NHS, according to a leading doctor. Dr Nick Scriven, president of the Society of Acute Medicine, said ...

A number of blood donation appointments across the country have been cancelled due to a drop in demand of more than a quarter during the coronavirus crisis. Although donations have declined in recent ...

The experienced surgeons would be linked in via video and working in theatres nearby, on hand in case of an emergency PATIENTS will soon be operated on by “cut-price” surgeons, a major report predicts ...

PATIENTS from East Kent who have been waiting a long time for routine operations, could soon be going to the Continent for them. Major joint replacements, hernias, cataracts and possibly prostate and ...

Extra cash will also be allocated to A&Es, mental health services and GPs THE boss of the NHS has said patients will have to wait longer for routine operations. Simon Stevens said urgent surgery such ...

NHS patients should contribute towards the cost of some routine operations, a body of leading public health experts have said. The Association of Directors of Public Health believes people should help ...