The strikes, impacting all three hospitals run by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, started at 7am on Thursday, June 27 and will continue until 7am on Tuesday, July 2. Previous industrial... Read more »
In June of last year, a Russian cybercrime gang called BlackCat hacked the Barts Health NHS Trust, a part of the UK’s National Health Service that operates several hospitals in London, and... Read more »
LONDON — Several London hospitals said Tuesday that they had to cancel operations and send patients away because of a cyberattack on a company that supplies pathology laboratory services. The firm, Synnovis,... Read more »
Major South London hospitals have declared a critical incident after a cyber attack has led to a number of procedures and operations being cancelled with emergency patients being diverted elsewhere. Services at ... Read more »
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 »
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated urgent and emergency services at the two hospitals, as ‘requires improvement’ after October and November inspections this year. This comes after both hospitals received overall ‘inadequate’ ratings in November... 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 »