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Families whose loved ones died after surgery at a specialist heart service have been contacted by health bosses amid a spike in mortality rates.

The NHS will have to divert £45bn from essential services to pay for new medicines under the terms of the UK-US trade deal agreed last December, leading to more than 200,000 avoidable deaths of patients, analysis has found.

Downing Street has hinted construction of almost 20 new hospital sites across England could be delayed or scrapped as it seeks ways to pour billions into defence.

Almost £24.4bn of government money went to private equity-run firms in year to April 2025, Guardian analysis shows.

A former football club boss and a senior paramedic are among 14 men charged over an alleged plot to rape and sexually assault a man’s drugged wife.

Babies were mistreated in death as well as during their short lives at scandal-hit hospital maternity units.

Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman are among individuals being sued in an attempt to recover some of the millions owed to the government by his collapsed company, PPE Medpro.

On February 25 2015, Andy Burnham rang me up out of the blue. In those days, I was the political editor at the Manchester Evening News, covering Greater Manchester’s escalating attempts to wrestle power away from London.

Two thirds of Scots seeking urgent mental health help are turned away, with waits in some areas stretching beyond three years.

Despite promising to lead a different kind of government, Keir Starmer’s failure to deliver change has led to his early exit from No.10, writes Hannah White

A nurse who fraudulently claimed almost £20,000 by adding shifts she did not work has been struck off.

A BMW driver who struck and killed a cherished NHS doctor and a mother of four as they stood on a motorway hard shoulder has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Medical bills for British tourists cost the government more than £181 million in 2025, Metro can exclusively reveal.

On 22 July 2025, Britain’s Ambassador to the United States sent a short email to the two most senior aides in Downing Street. The subject line was a name: “Peter Thiel.”

Baby deaths were "common" at an NHS trust where nurses were too busy buying handbags online, according to a bombshell investigation.

Amid the headlines focused on Keir Starmer’s struggle for his political survival, many may have overlooked the flurry of policy announcements his Government has made over the past few weeks.

People in Wales are self-isolating due to links with the ongoing hantavirus outbreak, it has been confirmed.

Sir Keir Starmer retains “full confidence” in Wes Streeting as Health Secretary, even as he looks set to resign in a bid to launch a leadership challenge.

A French woman infected with a severe form of hantavirus is on life support in a hospital in Paris after returning from a rat virus-stricken cruise.

Ten Brits linked to a deadly rat virus outbreak on a cruise ship are being flown to the UK to isolate.

An NHS doctor charged with posting on social media in support of Hamas wore a ‘celebratory’ number 7 necklace in court today as she faces a trial next year.