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The company behind an AI-powered monitoring system used in NHS mental health hospitals has acknowledged limitations in evidence to a public inquiry.

A hospital trust in Bristol is investigating several staff after it emerged the medical records of an 18-year-old were accessed inappropriately, years after his death.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust has apologised ‘unreservedly’, after admitting that hundreds of breast cancer patients came to harm under their care between 2023 and 2025.

A hospital trust in England is in crisis after accusations it is unsafe for patients, a joint Channel 4 News investigation has uncovered.

In the second part of our special Substack mini-series on climate change, Alex Thomson explores how extreme heat is affecting health.

Britain is getting hotter. But is the country ready?

In this episode of The Fourcast, economist and activist Gary Stevenon told us that the incoming prime minister will “fail” unless he is willing to properly tax wealth.

Earlier, we spoke to Sir Jeremy Hunt, who was the health secretary from 2012 to 2018. We asked him why he thinks the NHS has not been able to learn from its mistakes.

We spoke to Donna Ockenden, who led the Nottingham maternity care review, and we asked her how dark a day this is in the history of the NHS.

Cruel, toxic, dismissive. Just three of the words used in a damning report to describe the culture at an NHS Trust where 520 mothers and babies suffered “potentially avoidable” harm or died.

The NHS is bracing for a report on the biggest maternity scandal in its history, which is due to be published tomorrow.

Robert Fray died in 2022 after he was left unconscious and unnoticed in a hospital waiting room for 16 hours. 

Wes Streeting has resigned as health secretary, on the day the NHS in England hit its 18-week target for hospital treatment.

Resident doctors in England have begun a six-day strike, the 15th of their long-running dispute. 

A junior doctor who’s spent almost 12 years fighting a whistleblowing case is back in court.