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Young Asian female nurse in blue scrubs using voice recognition technology on phone while reviewing patient care documents on a clipboard in living room at home. Nurse sustainable lifestyle concept.

Is the NHS 'obsessed with AI'? Readers debate

Letters 4 days ago By Letters Editor

Samantha Smith from Bromsgrove.

Woman who had six years of unnecessary chemotherapy to sue NHS

UK 5 days ago By Sarah Hooper

A GP office with a poster for 'EMMA' and a receptionist made from binary code.

Meet the 'AI receptionist' picking up the phone for 1,000,000 GP patients

Tech 5 days ago By Josh Milton

High-angle view of skilled nurse giving intravenous infusion to female patient in clinic. Medical worker in uniform inserting IV line needle in vein of woman at hospital. Medicine, vitamin therapy.

NHS England develops 'world-first' database to help thousands at risk of inherited cancer

UK January 24, 2026 By Sarah Ping

'My doctor didn't believe my son had a parasite - but ChatGPT did' picture: Metro

'My doctor didn't believe my son had a parasite - but ChatGPT did'

Health January 26, 2026 By Josh Milton

Ellie Curran who had to go to the toilet "every two seconds" while on her period discovered it's because her womb is split in half. // The medical condition ? called complete bicorporeal uterus ? occurs where the uterus has a deep external indentation at the top which creates two distinct heart-shaped uterine cavities that are fully separated by a wall of tissue. Ellie Curran, 21, first started experiencing intense pain when she started her period aged 12. Alongside ?leaking? through sanitary products she has found herself unable to ?leave the house? due to the intensity of the pain ? and received a diagnosis of PMDD ? Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder ? in November 2025. Doctors removed her appendix when she was 19 due to her stomach pain but found it had not ruptured. During the surgery they found what they believed to be an extra womb and Ellie was referred to a women?s clinic. After further scans doctors ?didn?t know for sure? whether Ellie?s uterus was completely split into two ? Uterus Didelphys ? or was one uterus that had an indentation, called a Bicoporeal Uterus. Photo released 23/01/2026

I thought I just had heavy periods but my womb had split in two

Health January 23, 2026 By Alice Giddings

Outbreak of medieval disease could wreak havoc on schools and care homes

UK January 20, 2026 By Luke Alsford

Louise Pearce's son Thomas

My 8-year-old's speech slowed down - 10 months later he was gone

Health January 19, 2026 By Louise Pearce

I'm one of the 270,000 Brits with this invisible illness — we don't feel safe in hospital

Health January 19, 2026 By Eleanor Noyce

Harry Styles at S.S. Daley RTW Spring 2025 as part of London Ready to Wear Fashion Week on September 13, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Saira MacLeod/WWD via Getty Images)

Harry Styles cervical screening warning meme from NHS praised for helping 'save lives'

Showbiz January 18, 2026 By Emily Bashforth

closeup asian woman having her belly fat examined by plastic surgeon using marker lines

Botched overseas surgeries 'could cost NHS up to £20,000 per patient'

Politics January 14, 2026 By Craig Munro

Patients sleep in beds lining a hospital corridor in overrun A&E department at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, on December 11 2024. Release date December 16 2024. Shocking pictures capture the moment a great-grandmother with dementia was forced to sleep in a hospital corridor- likened to a "warzone." Louisa Gilbert, 89, was checked into an overrun A&E department at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, after suffering a fall at home on Wednesday (December 11). The frail patient - who has dementia and terminal lung cancer - slept pushed up against a staff desk for more than two days, waiting for a space to become free on a ward. Nearby, beds filled with patients lined the emergency unit???s corridors in scenes likened to a ???warzone??? by worried relatives.

Corridor care has become so normal hospitals are fitting plug sockets in hallways

UK January 8, 2026 By Luke Alsford

Amy Pohl, who is smiling and in a wheelchair, in the middle of a hotel lobby.

I begged doctors to remove my arm - I have the 'suicide disease'

Health January 3, 2026 By Amy Pohl

Debbie Whitehouse smiles while sitting in wheelchair in front of a lake

I'm watching my body die - one piece at a time

Health January 5, 2026 By Debbie Whitehouse

Boy with chickenpox. Rash on child body close up.

Chickenpox vaccine rolled out to children on NHS - how can your child get one?

UK January 2, 2026 By Sara Odeen-Isbister

Ambulances outside the Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, as a number of NHS trusts in England have declared critical incidents which can be called when health and care services are so busy that special measures are needed to restore normal operations and keep patients safe. Picture date: Wednesday January 8, 2025. PA Photo. Around 5,000 hospital beds in England are occupied with patients with flu, and patients have been urged to attend A&E alone as they grapple with high demand amid rising cases. Some hospitals have also restricted visitor numbers while others are encouraging people to wear surgical masks to limit the spread of viruses. See PA story HEALTH NHS. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Huge rise in number of people turning to A&E for coughs and blocked noses

UK December 31, 2025 By Jen Mills

Tharanika Ahillan in scrubs

People are turning to A&E because healthcare is failing

UK January 1, 2026 By Dr Tharanika Ahillan

Nurse reveals injuries after she was 'nearly beaten to death' with crowbar in hospital

UK December 31, 2025 By Jen Mills

LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 27: Signage for the Emergency Department is seen at The Royal London Hospital on December 27, 2024 in London, England. NHS England faces a "quad-demic" of winter illnesses as Flu, Covid, RSV and Norovirus sweep the country. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

A&Es in ‘big trouble’ with corridor care now ‘normalised’, top doctor warns

UK December 30, 2025 By Josh Layton

A paramedic who lied about her sister being in intensive care to go and see her at Christmas has been struck off.Natalie Twomey emailed her bosses in the ambulance service to tell them that her sister had 'deteriorated' and she needed to be with her.However they found that her sister had put out Facebook posts with her decorated house and memories of their previous trip to Mexico.

Paramedic who lied about sister's illness to get day off exposed by Facebook

UK December 28, 2025 By Ryan Prosser