Patients with diabetes are missing out on vital prescriptions that let them keep tabs on their condition, despite repeated warnings, says a UK charity.

Information on how patients fare with specific surgeons in England is to be highlighted in an NHS transparency drive.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $5.7m to launch a programme that uses plasma from Ebola survivors to try to treat the illness.

The NHS in England has repeatedly missed a key target for rapidly treating cancer patients, official figures show.

Guidance for people who install hidden cameras to check on standards of their own or a relative's care is approved by the Care Quality Commission.

An anti-abortion protester is convicted of harassing a Marie Stopes clinic director at her Belfast city centre offices.

A flu vaccination programme in Lancashire has been criticised by some Muslim groups during the latest stage in its roll-out, in Lancashire.