The lives of hospital patients who are put on a drip are being placed at risk by poor attention by staff to intravenous fluid care, experts warn.

Sharing a bed with your newborn baby increases the risk of sudden death syndrome - commonly known as cot death - fivefold, research suggests.

A chief inspector of GPs is to be appointed as part of a push to improve services outside of hospitals, ministers are set to announce.

Ministers have been told they must go further with their overhaul of social care in England by merging its budget with the NHS.

One of the most concerning classes of hospital 'superbug' is not being tracked by the Department of Health, it is revealed.

A baby was left deaf and blind because a trainee midwife did not recognise signs of jaundice within days of his birth, a health trust admits.

The amount of alcohol sold in Scottish shops has fallen by 2.6% in the year since multi-buy promotions were banned, research suggests.

A woman has part of her jaw rebuilt with a bicycle-style chain after cancer had "eaten away" at her face.