Doctors were placed under “unprecedented pressure” to go live with the new NHS 111 helpline before some were ready, contributing to the A&E crisis in Britain's hospitals, documents seen by The Independent on Sunday reveal.

LONDON -- More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism.

The amount of time asthma patients spend soaking up the sun may have an impact on the illness, researchers have suggested. A team at King's College London said low levels of vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, was linked to a worsening of ...

Organisers of this year's 'amazing' Race for Life have said a heart-felt thank you to everyone involved. Hundreds of Island women took part in the race at Newport's Medina Leisure Centre, raising money for Cancer Research UK.

We all know that the NHS is a finite resource and, like all resources, it is important that it is not wasted or squandered. The fact that foreign nationals are using and abusing the health service we pay for is an affront to our sense, as a nation, of what is fair and ...

The health secretary has said that GPs should be responsible for ensuring that there is a good out of hours service for people on their lists.

Visitors to Milton Keynes Hospital on Wednesday will have the chance to learn more about dementia. Volunteers from the Alzheimer's Society will be in the main entrance of the hospital from 9am to 3pm as part of Dementia Awareness Week.

Thousands marched on Whitehall on Saturday to fend off the government's brutal assault on the NHS. Health workers, trade unionists, campaigners and politicians marched from Jubilee Gardens in South Bank and over Waterloo bridge, where they unfurled a ...

A charity established during the Second World War will be dropping the 'W' from its name, in a move to attract more male volunteers and reach the ageing population.

A hospital locked down its emergency unit after several patients needed treatment for contact with an unknown powder. The patients went to Queen's Hospital in Burton Upon Trent after coming into contact with the substance at their workplace.

Half of parents driving their children to UK primary schools live under a mile away, walk-to-school campaigners say. The charity Living Streets says the numbers walking to school are falling.

The next two years will see a fierce debate about immediate priorities in public spending, but many health economists are already looking 30 to 40 years further ahead.

VISITORS to a North-East hospital were asked to take part in a chocolate-based research project to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day.

More than a third of calls to a confidential phone line for health workers in Scotland to raise concerns about NHS practices came from other parts of the UK.

HUNDREDS of people took a night time stroll around Salisbury at the weekend in the fifth annual Salisbury Hospice and Journal Midnight Walk.

FORGET the so-called joys of youth, over 55s are the happiest age group in the country, according to new research. Published: Mon, May 20, 2013.