Many nurses believe the NHS has a culture that discourages staff from raising concerns about patient care, a survey suggests.

A charity single recorded by prison inmates will be released tomorrow to raise money for a campaign to highlight the symptoms of brain tumours.

The Queen is in hospital as a precaution, while she is assessed for symptoms of gastroenteritis, Buckingham Palace says.

Opening up the NHS to greater competition from private firms could put patients in danger from a "fragmented" health service, the chair of the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges insists.

The suspected onset of diabetes may have been behind the frostbite that forced explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes to pull out of an Antarctica expedition, he tells the BBC.