Wes Streeting has described nurses as “the backbone of our NHS” after a staff member was left in a critical condition by a stabbing in a hospital’s A&E department.

Police were called to Rochdale Road at 11.30pm on Saturday to reports of a stabbing, Greater Manchester Police said.

More than 4,000 Midland patients waited at least half-an-hour last week to be transferred to hospital from an ambulance last ...

The number of flu patients in hospital in England is nearly five times the figure at the start of last month. NHS England has ...

Well under three-quarters of patients who arrived at accident and emergency at Hillingdon Hospitals Trust last month were ...

Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment at Hillingdon Hospitals Trust in November, new figures show.

The number of patients on wards with flu increased by a fifth from 4,469 at the end of December to 5,408 last week, NHS data ...

King’s College Hospital Trust has imposed changes to their hospital visits due to “high rates of flu and respiratory illness.

Across England, 89 per cent of available beds were occupied in the most recent week – an improvement on 93 per cent the ...