Britain's COVID test and trace system is failing to meet its objectives, delivering results too slowly and finding too few contacts of those who tested positive, the government's spending watchdog ...

The country is one of many struggling to cope with a new surge of the disease. With more than 12,000 additional deaths by Nov. 19 in the second wave, Britain is recording nearly four times more deaths ...

The government is set to miss a key manifesto pledge to cut NHS waiting times, experts warn, as Labour fails to get a grip on the crisis. The party promised that 65 per cent of patients would be ...

THIS time four years ago, I was sipping a glass of champagne and savouring every precious swallow – to the obvious disapproval of the waitress. The reason she was judging me? Because I ...

As the weather cools and autumn approaches, health professionals are reminding people that flu season is just around the corner. While flu is sometimes brushed off as “just a bad cold,” it can be ...

He called on the NHS to commission a national programme to get blood tests locally, but analysed at a central lab. There are around 7,500 diagnosed ovarian cancer cases every year in the UK. Women who ...

An NHS trust has become the first in England to offer a new ovarian cancer surveillance test for women with an inherited risk of the disease. Women with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations are known to be ...