Doctors should snoop on their colleagues to ensure they are not prescribing too many antibiotics, the NHS in England suggests.

The number of people spending more than 12 hours in accident and emergency in Wales is at its highest since records began in 2012.

Patients and visitors are to be banned from using electronic cigarettes in hospital grounds across Scotland within weeks.

The NHS in England has repeatedly missed a key target for rapidly treating cancer patients, official figures for 2014 show.

A doctor who stopped taking new patients because of "safety" concerns is keeping the list closed despite it being a breach of his NHS contract.

In a radical new approach to HIV vaccination, DNA in monkeys is transformed and seems to give total protection against the virus, US scientists say.

A survey of paediatricians suggests waiting-time guidelines to assess and diagnose disabled children are being breached.