Meat and eggs used in hospital food in England do not meet the animal welfare standards expected by consumers, a survey suggests.

Doctors who are launching a new political party are promising to make the NHS one of the key issues at the next election.

Drinking just one or two glasses of wine a week in pregnancy can have an impact on a child's IQ, a study says.

Dr Jeremy Steele, an oncologist and bad news trainer at St Barts Hospital, London, speaks to Radio 2's Jeremy Vine about the first time he had to tell someone they would die soon.

There were "serious failings" in the treatment of a one-year-old girl who died following open heart surgery, a coroner rules.

About 2,000 people protest outside the Irish parliament in Dublin to call for the reform of the Republic's abortion following the death of Savita Halappanavar at University Hospital Galway.

A new way of doing hip operations in Sussex reduces the amount of time patients spend in hospital by almost a half.

There has been a big fall in the number of people in England who have been waiting more than a year for NHS hospital treatment