One of the world’s leading drug companies is threatening to withdraw some of its new cancer treatments from the process by which they are approved for use in the National Health Service.

Qantas is to undergo an investigation into its safety and maintenance operations after the airline suffered its third mid-air emergency in eight days

For Dr Spencer at his Norfolk surgery, the whoops-a-daisy moment came when he dosed a woman with bismuth. Startled by her dyspeptic response, and eager to reassure her increasingly agitated husband, he swallowed a spoonful of the stuff himself. “See? Perfectly safe!”

Nobody will be charged over failings at a Kent hospital trust that contributed to 90 deaths from infection by.

IN London, Jonathan Chapple was told to pay £55,000 for treatment with a life-prolonging cancer drug. In Paris, Marie-Chantal Lauriot-Prévost is given the same medicine free.

Bosses in the National Health Service have refused to administer a drug to a patient with advanced kidney cancer even though the medicine is being provided free.

Life and Death on the NHS; Lab Rats

A cancer patient sent home to die by the National Health Service has seen his health improve after he cashed in his pension and used funds raised by friends to pay privately for an expensive drug.

The Government interrupted its week-long celebration of the NHS yesterday to issue a sharp warning to anyone tempted to desert it. Rather than welcoming a new EU Directive that codifies the rights of patients to travel abroad for treatment, the Department of Health gruffly announced that “health tou...

Mary Webb, who is in her sixties, travelled to Malta in April for a knee replacement operation. It cost her about £5,000 to have it done privately, and she says she would have been delighted to have saved the money if she could have travelled abroad and been paid for by the NHS.