Every year, health leaders in England publish national planning guidance for the NHS, which sets out the key priorities for hospitals and community services. Last year some 32 goals were set but ...

Prostate cancer has become England’s most common cancer, according to new analysis. Diagnoses of the disease overtook breast cancer in 2022 and 2023, Prostate Cancer UK said. Data also suggests there ...

Exclusive: The evaluation is due to start within the next few weeks, The Independent understands, but the government has still not confirmed who will take part ...

Former foreign secretary Mr Cleverly said it is ‘good that Keir Starmer had an extended conversation with President Trump’.

SO County Hall is “surplus to requirements” according to Worcestershire County Council leader Simon Geraghty — a fact that many of us ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting was interrupted by climate protesters on Saturday as he gave a speech urging progressives to fight the “populist right” in a battle of ideas.

An average of 41 of patients ready to leave hospital last week were discharged each day, according to data from NHS England.

Sir Stephen Powis has urged people to engage with the national conversation about the future of the health service.

Author Frank Cottrell-Boyce wants the Government to address the ‘invisible privilege and inequality’ of ‘more and more children’ ...

The letter has been signed by various representatives of charities and medical bodies, and addressed to the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Work and Pensions ...

Wes Streeting has described nurses as “the backbone of our NHS” after a staff member was left in a critical condition by a stabbing in a hospital’s acute medical unit (AMU). A man has been ...