Air pollution is contributing to about 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK, doctors have said.

The NHS in England is to offer pregnant women their own "personal budgets", worth at least £3,000, so they can pick and choose the care they receive.

Planned council tax rises will not bring in enough money to cover the rising cost of social care, local authorities in England warn.

Private hospitals in Northern Ireland are reporting an increase in the number of inquiries from the public about obtaining the meningitis B vaccine following a high-profile campaign.

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey is admitted to hospital for the third time since contracting Ebola in 2014.

More than 8,000 people who were treated by a medic who was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 2008 are offered screening for the infection.

All wards at the Princess Royal University Hospital in Orpington are closed to visitors after a norovirus outbreak.

Ministers should "apologise" to junior doctors and row back on imposing a new contract in England, the government's former patient safety adviser says.