Boris Johnson has admitted that NHS waiting times are "unacceptable" after the Health Secretary suggested key targets for the health service could be scrapped.

BAFTA-winning star unites with leading dementia charity and urges fans to support its Trek26 fundraising campaign.

Royal College of Emergency Medicine respond to new NHS performance figures. 

Today (9th January 2020), the charity Action on Hearing Loss and Medicines Discovery Catapult announce the launch of the Hearing Medicines Discovery Syndicate, a unique collaboration to accelerate the much-needed development of treatments for hearing loss and tinnitus.

The Government must deliver real improvements to how services are funded rather than relying on tax avoidance schemes which barely paper over the cracks, writes Karin Smyth MP.

RCEM President, Dr Katherine Henderson, responds to Baroness Thornton. 

The scale of repair, maintenance and renewal in the NHS is huge, failure to keep buildings safe poses significant risk to NHS patients and staff, writes Baroness Thornton.

New research commissioned by Slimming World looks at how critical and negative language around weight and body image damages our self-esteem and can spiral into a vicious cycle

Researchers at the University of East Anglia are crowd-funding a new project to test former professional football players for early signs of dementia.

Most voters want Boris Johnson to pump more money into public services before cutting taxes, according to a new poll.

Groups of patients with "greatest need" will see NHS hospital parking charges scrapped from April under new plans announced by the government.

Labour has hit out at the Government over a series of "disgraceful" delays for NHS patients waiting for diagnostic scans and tests.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has spoken of his "shock" after being diagnosed with diabetes.

Billy Davis, Public Affairs and Policy Manager at Hft, responds to the Queen's Speech. 

New research has revealed that the number of carers aged over 80 has rocketed over the last decade.

A bill guaranteeing a multi-billion cash boost for the NHS will be the first piece of domestic legislation introduced by the new Government.

Nursing students will get a new £5,000 a year grant from next September to help with the cost of their courses.

In September 2019 Ron Hogg announced he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and called for a change in the law on assisted dying.

Alzheimer’s Society is delighted to announce that Kate Lee, currently Chief Executive Officer at children and young people’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent, will take up the reins as the charity’s new CEO in April 2020.

New data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) shows that hundreds of thousands of people with mental health problems have seen their support from benefits like DLA and PIP cut completely.

As our new Parliament sits, the Royal Osteoporosis Society calls on the Government to live up to their promises and invest in FLS now to reduce the burden of hip fractures on the NHS next winter.

We’ll make sure this new Government doesn’t forget about those of us with mental health problems. We know the public is increasingly concerned about mental health and we will continue to hold this Government to account for its actions, says Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of Mind. 

Whoever forms our next government, it is clear that greater ambition is needed on mental health, writes Mind. 

Labour has vowed to pull the NHS back from the "brink" as research by the party revealed patients and staff are being put at risk in hospitals across England.