NHS hospitals are being urged to do more to help homeless patients, in a report commissioned by the government.

Gardeners are warned to wash their hands after using compost following a series of Legionella cases in Scotland over the past five years.

A fundraiser barred for the London marathon begins his attempt on the Olympic Marathon route in a deep-sea diving suit.

Northern Ireland's five health trusts breached their A&E targets, with performances particularly poor in the Northern and Belfast areas, the BBC has learned.

How was it possible that the 63 stone Welsh teenager, Georgia Davis, was allowed to become so large she needed to be cut free from her house after collapsing with breathing problems? Sunday Times columnist Minette Marrin and Enver Solomon, policy director at Children's Society, discuss the issue.

An NHS trust paid £651,000 in out of court settlements to 15 former patients of a Kent surgeon dismissed in 2007, it is revealed.

A man who contaminated packs of painkiller Nurofen Plus with powerful anti-psychotic drugs is jailed for 18 months.

A gross failure to provide basic medical attention to a mother in childbirth at Wales' biggest hospital contributed to her baby's death, a coroner finds.