The NHS - or National Health Service - is a publicly funded healthcare system which provides medical care for free to residents of the United Kingdom. It is often referred to as being "free at the ...

The Government has announced it’s accelerating its reforms to children’s social care, injecting an extra £18million into councils in England and setting up a new pilot program. The scheme will use a ...

The number of doctors taking early retirement from the NHS has more than tripled over the past 13 years, official figures show. Figures provided to The BMJ by the NHS Business Services Authority under ...

One in three GPs with a licence to practise in England have never worked in the NHS or have left the service, data suggests.

The number of NHS operations carried out in private hospitals or clinics has hit a record high, according to new analysis. Data from the Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) show that ...