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A poll of 15,560 family doctors also found that one in six is considering going part-time and 7 per cent are contemplating quitting altogether.
A senior GP warns that newer apps that monitor your heart rate, blood pressure and blood oxygen levels could be causing unnecessary worry without providing any benefit.
Nearly half of hospital trusts hire private firms to run their car parks. Depending on local arrangements, these firms take anything from a tenth to 100 per cent of the money made.
Patients will have to take their passport to hospital as part of a clampdown on health tourism. For the first time, hospitals are being told to ensure everyone proves they are entitled to free NHS treatment.
One in five diagnosed with the disease had put off making an appointment for at least four weeks, allowing the cancer time to spread and potentially reducing their chance of survival.
Just over a quarter of women giving birth in England now have a caesarean and the rate has more than doubled since the early 1990s.
Half of all hospital trusts in England are letting patients jump NHS queues for cataract surgery if they pay for it themselves, with some such as Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells charging up to £2,700.
The British Medical Association also found nearly two-thirds of GPs were not willing to join into larger groups to ensure one surgery in an area was open on Saturdays and Sundays.
The NHS handed out 404,500 prescriptions for suncream at a cost of £13million in 2014 and 4.7million prescriptions for indigestion pills costing£29million, damning analysis has found.
Managers from the London Ambulance Service, the largest in the NHS, have just filled 225 vacant posts with applicants from Sydney and Melbourne after holding interviews at five-star hotels.
Senior doctors say the number will rise further over the next few years as the NHS is so short of home-grown GPs. The figures were released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Medical professionals say young women are increasingly travelling to countries such as Thailand and Turkey for cheap cosmetic surgery, including tummy tucks and breast implants.
Research shows the number of visits to casualty has dropped by 8 per cent in areas where patients can see family doctors seven days a week.
In a bid to prove their thesis, academics from Southampton University are launching a study involving 40 elderly patients - half of whom will go to the cinema once or twice a week.
More than 4m visits a year are unnecessary – costing the NHS £290million. Doctors have even reported patients showing up because their false nails were hurting or they had paint in their hair.
Researchers have calculated that more than four million A&E visits a year are unnecessary as they are for self-treatable conditions – costing the NHS £290million a year.
Adverts which feature products high in sugar like Coca-Cola and Haribo, and even gaming websites, are appearing on the likes of vloggers’ sites such as Zoella on YouTube.
The top-earning private dentists in the UK made a collective turnover of almost £1billion in 2014 – up 22 per cent on 2010 – with treatments including ‘smile analyses’ and sonic polishing, research shows.
Patients are being banned from booking advance GP appointments as part of a cost-cutting drive. Under the new system, which is already in place in 150 practices, patients must call up on the day.
Jeremy Hunt’s announcement follows growing pressure from charities, highlighted by the Mail, which warned that children were dying and suffering devastating injuries.
A report by the Kings Fund today also warns that standards across the NHS including hitting waiting times and financial targets have slipped for the first time in 20 years.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Breast Cancer has said it is wrong that women in Britain are no longer invited for mammograms once they reach 70.
A six year inquiry said the trauma suffered by thousands of people in the 1970s and 80s was the 'the stuff of nightmares', but insisted 'all that could reasonably be done was done'.
Millions of women across the UK are not taking enough exercise because they are afraid of being 'judged', a report by MPs on the Commons' Health Select Committee has found.
Cancer survival rates in Britain lag more than ten years behind those in many other European countries including France, Sweden, and Italy despite billions being spent to improve survival.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals, which runs Lincoln County Hospital, (pictured), paid £3,258 for a consultant to work a 24-hour shift in A&E between Christmas and New Year, according to Sky News.
Health watchdog NICE advises keeping a diary of every morsel consumed, limiting children's screen time and generally moving more in its latest guidance aiming to curb the obesity epidemic.
The official study found cocaine drug is now 'firmly embedded in UK society', and warned launching an anti-cocaine campaign could encourage more people to take it.
Britain has one of the worst cancer survival rates in Europe and this has partly been blamed on late diagnosis as well as lack of availability of effective treatments.
The initiative extends to overweight NHS staff, who will be encouraged to take dieting classes held at hospitals in order to set a good example to patients. Pictured, people take part in a Zumba class.
Dentists say parents assume they are giving their children something healthy, when in fact sugar in the juice is eating away at their teeth.
Simon Stevens, the health service’s chief executive, today announced a £200 million scheme aimed at providing better care for the most vulnerable patients so they don’t end up in hospital.
NHS officials in the West Midlands are proposing to pay family doctors in Birmingham, Hereford and Worcester £150 an hour – as well as £200 towards staffing costs - to work on Easter Saturday morning.
Some 70 executives of new regional bodies earn more than the £125,000 maximum recommended by the NHS, with one boss taking home £280,000 - double the Prime Minister.
Women whose father or brother has prostate cancer are more likely to develop breast cancer, research shows.
Macmillan cancer charity say more than 100,000 patients are not given enough help with routine tasks such as washing, dressing, going to the toilet or collecting their prescriptions.
Senior doctors have blasted the 'blatant rationing' as 'immoral and unfair' as new figures show two thirds of NHS trusts also deny some procedures to smokers.
Gloucestershire Hospitals is one of a growing number using overseas nurses to plug severe staffing shortages. Experts estimate there are 20,000 nurse vacancies across the NHS.
Health officials are anticipating that services already under pressure will struggle to keep up with demand over Easter and are trying to free up their beds over the next two weeks.
A study has found that for every hour each day an adult spends sitting down during their life, the likelihood of developing heart disease goes up by 14 per cent.
The cholesterol-lowering drugs are thought to prevent the hormone insulin from working properly, which can trigger type 2 diabetes.
A major study has found that patients prescribed high doses of the painkiller for long periods were up to 63 per cent more likely to die unexpectedly, and 68 per cent more likely to have a heart attack.
Today’s report is expected to conclude that between 2004 and 2011 there were a series of missed chances at every level, from Furness General Hospital in Barrow to the Department of Health.
The website GP Jobs in Australia promises British doctors 'great earning potential', claiming that 'compared to the NHS, there's less hassle, less bureaucracy, more medicine and money'.
Ministers have warned that the NHS is becoming an ‘international health service’ and overseas patients not entitled to free care racking up bills of up to £300 million year.
In guidance published today, the NHS watchdog NICE states that once a mother-to-be is in 'established labour' she should have a dedicated midwife until the baby is born.
Bereaved relatives have told how their loved ones were ‘forgotten to death’ by staff who refused to help them eat or drink.
Shocking new evidence has emerged that the first privately run NHS hospital was the victim of a seriously flawed inspection by the health watchdog, containing more than 200 errors.
A controversial scheme to pay GPs £55 for every new case of dementia on their books is leading to patients being wrongly told they may have the devastating illness, researchers warn.
Experts claim British women are being given insufficient advice, and compared the toxins in alcohol to those in Thalidomide, a drug which caused birth defects in the 50s and 60s.