There has been a sharp rise in the number of patients who have waited more than a year for NHS care in England, according to a new report. The latest quarterly performance figures of the NHS provider sector show more than 2,600 people have waited over a year for treatment. The figures from NHS Improvement also reveal half of the nation's "best performing" A&E departments are unable to meet waiting time standards. The NHS Mandate states that 95% of patients attending A&E shoul

More than three-quarters of the British public say they trust the NHS with their personal data despite recent privacy scares highlighted by the media. According to a survey by consumer health and social care body, Healthwatch England, 77% of adults are confident in the ability of the NHS to protect their patient data. Meanwhile, 73% would be happy for the NHS to use their personal information to improve healthcare. However, more than half of people cited concerns about how th

Failures across health and social care led to around 1.5 million emergency admissions to hospital that could have been avoided, MPs have said. Nearly a quarter of the urgent admissions in 2016/17 would not have happened if services had been more effective, according to the Public Accounts Committee. It said the lack of impact on cutting the "lamentable" numbers of avoidable admissions was "frustrating". PAC chairwoman Meg Hillier hit out at the lack of government cash for pre