Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is asking the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the next three years.

Doctors get their patients' blood pressure soaring, while nurses don't, findings suggest.

Millions of children in the UK are being given penicillin at too low a dose, putting them at risk of persistent infections, say researchers.

The NHS in England is being urged to save 6,000 lives over the next three years by reducing avoidable mistakes.

A major overhaul of the way ambulance service and A&E department performance in Wales is monitored and measured will be trialled next month.

Doctors say a new measure that considers the ravages of a lifetime rather than a snapshot of current health is a better gauge of future heart disease risk.

A senior figure from NICE dismisses claims that new NHS guidelines allow girls to stock up on the morning-after pill.

A treatment using faecal matter is a safe and effective procedure for people with a recurring gut infection, the medicines watchdog has said.