Crisis talks are taking place later between care home owners and council leaders amid mounting concern a large number of providers are preparing to pull out of the market.

The results of a ballot of junior doctors in England are to be unveiled later - with a vote in favour of strikes widely expected.

Hospitals are missing key opportunities to save the lives of hundreds of babies in the UK, an investigation into stillbirths shows.

Bacteria are now resistant to drugs of last resort meaning the world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", warn scientists.

A 68-year-old woman "locked into the end stage" of multiple sclerosis and in a "minimally conscious state" should be allowed to die, a judge rules.

Patients could get innovative cancer drugs more quickly under plans to overhaul England's controversial Cancer Drugs Fund.