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The Department for Health will look at the potential costs of implementing a controversial policy that is due to be debated by MPs later this month.

Boris Johnson’s government blocked a request to fund another 10,000 hospital beds at the height of the Covid pandemic, the chief executive of NHS England has said.

NHS England has attacked senior doctors for charging “rip off” rates for overtime, after a BBC investigation found pressure to cut waiting lists is allowing some consultants to make more than £200,000 a year for additional work.

Cancer cell detector made of material that won its inventors Nobel prize is hailed as ‘clinical milestone’

Experts call for consumption rooms and wider testing of substances, as number of people dying hits new high

A damning report warns that hundreds of thousands may die in the coming decades due to asbestos in crumbling UK schools, leading to a potential "tsunami" of deaths.

Whitehall source says it would only allow NHS to ‘stand still’ on waiting lists rather than reduce them

NHS Providers chief says ’vital bits of the NHS are literally falling apart after years of underinvestment’

Mionco screening has potential to be a ‘gamechanger’ in five years, says health secretary, Wes Streeting

A man with a facial disfigurement says he was asked to leave a restaurant because he was ‘scaring customers’.

Unlike the EU, Great Britain has significantly reduced protections for numerous types of food.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust tells inquest highly vulnerable Aviva Otte was given nutritional product containing deadly bacteria

During the hearing, the mother described the loss of Yousef Al-Kharboush at nine days old in 2014 as the "worst experience a parent could have."

MPs will vote on Tuesday on whether to approve the government’s controversial plan to remove the winter fuel allowance from some pensioners.

Leaked Whitehall documents reveal plans to extend indoor smoking ban to certain outside spaces, such as pub gardens

The new variant of the mpox virus is spreading rapidly worldwide, prompting Asian nations to strengthen border controls, while the UK and EU borders remain lax.

Professor Chris Whitty, the UK’s chief medical officer, joined government ministers in assessing the UK’s readiness for any potential outbreak of a new variant of mpox.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Mpox a global health emergency as scientists say they are alarmed by a new strain that is spreading.

ITV News was given exclusive access as the only UK broadcaster to join police trying to tackle pink cocaine on the streets of Ibiza, as George Hancorn reports

As his first act in office, Wes Streeting says he has spoken to the British Medical Association (BMA) to re-start negotiations in a bid to end the dispute over pay and working conditions

The U.S. charged four people in connection with an alleged scheme, which now involves 193 defendants, to defraud federal health care programs of more than US$2.75 billion through the submission of fake opioid prescriptions.

Investigation details industry campaign including legal threats and charm offensive aimed at Tory MPs