It was five years ago this week that the first folk on British soil - two Chinese nationals staying in a York hotel, as it ...

Office for National Statistics (ONS) data forecasts that the UK population will swell by almost five million people over the ...

The First Minister is expected to make the announcement during a meeting with healthcare officials later on Monday.

First Minister John Swinney will set out his strategy to revive the NHS - by creating thousands of extra appointments and a ...

In reality, as the chart below shows, NHS England has not reached this level of performance ... NHS Confederation analysis looking at both the current waiting list and expected demand in the coming ...

"Nearly one in six Scots are on an NHS waiting list, yet the number of operations at Scotland's biggest elective operations hub has actually fallen in recent months,” she said. "The SNP must act ...

Here are two charts that put into perspective ... In recent years the NHS has struggled to get the waiting list down. A big factor has been the NHS’s inability to increase the number of ...

please do continue to only use 999 and A&E in life-threatening emergencies and use NHS 111 and 111 online for other conditions, as well as using your local GP and pharmacy services in the usual way.” ...

One of the areas I cover for the FT is the NHS and this week we learned more ... to utilise excess capacity and help reduce the waiting list. How much extra elective care is required to meet ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom, Surrey (Leon Neal/PA) More patients will be sent for treatment in private hospitals ...

The government has unveiled a new pledge to cut the list of patients waiting more than 18 weeks for NHS treatment in England by nearly half a million over the next year. The plan, to be announced ...