Imagine walking into your workplace knowing there’s a high chance you might be physically attacked, threatened, or racially abused. For healthcare workers at two hospitals in East London, this has become an... Read more »
NHS North East London (NEL) warned that its hospitals are expected to be extremely busy after more than 160,000 people attended A&E between January and December in 2023. This marked a 20,000 increase... Read more »
A London surgeon has described witnessing a “massacre unfold” during 43 days spent under bombardment in Gaza, saying the destruction of the Palestinian health system was a military objective of the war.... Read more »
Matthew Trainer, chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT), spoke out ahead of industrial action by junior and senior doctors at the trust starting tomorrow (September 19) and... Read more »
Across the NHS, junior doctors and consultants are escalating their pay dispute with the government by taking action on the same day in mid-September. September will also see thousands of NHS facilities... Read more »
Receive free Health sector updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Health sector news every morning. US health insurer Centene is selling its chain of GP... Read more »
NHS England has set a target of 95 per cent of patients being admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours after arriving. But at the centres at King George Hospital in Goodmayes and... Read more »
The country’s leading tumour treatment specialist whose research helped set up fast-track diagnostic centres has been on a fact-finding mission to see how two east London hospitals are cutting waiting lists. Consultant... Read more »