A new NHS patient rating system – known as the “friends and family test” – is to be introduced to help improve nursing care in England.
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Patients’ ratings ‘to boost care’
Two prescription gluten-free pizza bases can cost the NHS as much as £35, BBC Newsnight has learned.
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NHS ‘paid £17 for pizza base’
Creeping rationing of NHS care is making patients suffer unnecessarily, doctors are warning.
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Patients ‘suffer NHS rationing’
Women in their early 40s should be given access to IVF on the NHS, draft guidelines for England, Wales and Northern Ireland recommend.
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IVF age limit ‘should be raised’
An 83-year-old man becomes the oldest person in the UK to donate a kidney while still alive, the NHS Blood and Transplant service says.
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Oldest living kidney donor at 83
At least 150 lives will be saved and thousands of wasted ambulance journeys avoided by a change in 999 response practices, NHS chiefs believe.
A drug for advanced prostate cancer, which can extend life by more than three months, is likely to be approved for NHS use in England and Wales after the medical watchdog reverses an earlier decision.
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U-turn on NHS prostate drug use
The anti-wrinkle drug Botox could soon be offered to patients with chronic migraines by the NHS in England and Wales, according to the medicines watchdog.
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NHS may offer Botox migraine jab
Health secretary Andrew Lansley is defending the decision to veto a Freedom of Information order to publish the risk assessment of the NHS overhaul.
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Lansley defending NHS risks veto
Some hospital services in Wales are in danger of “collapse” unless radical changes are made, a report for the NHS Confederation warns.
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‘Collapse’ threat to hospitals
The risk assessment of the NHS overhaul in England will not be published after ministers vetoed requests to release it.
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NHS risk register release blocked
Three of Wales’ NHS boards failed to balance the books and are bailed out with £12m from the Welsh government, BBC Wales reveals.
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NHS boards given £12m lifeline
The contraceptive pill should be available at pharmacies without a GP prescription, including to some under-16s, an NHS report says.
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‘Widen pharmacy pill access’ call
The bulk of the £9.8bn the NHS spends on diabetes each year is wasted – and the disease could cost it a sixth of its entire budget by 2035, says a report.
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NHS ‘wastes billions on diabetes’
A consultation begins on whether doctors should be tested for their grasp of English and prevented from working for the NHS if they fail these tests.
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Consultation on doctors’ language
