NHS spends nearly £4million a week for elderly patients in hospitals who are well enough to go home. The spending for this problem, colloquially known as ‘bed-blocking’, is feared to get worse with the NHS budget cuts. Many elderly people have to remain in hospital even after doctors have declared them fit to be discharged because they don’t have sufficient help for them at home or residential care homes.

The number of NHS trusts in debt has increased by two times last year, showed a report from Audit Commission. One in 10 hospitals, mental health and community trusts showed losses, which is 13 more than last year. In all 31 NHS trusts posted a deficit. Overall the NHS saw a surplus of £2bn, which is 2% of its budget. The health services have been asked to save £20bn by…

AWA and his family are suing Margarete based Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital as hospital staff put on a “do not resuscitate” order on his medical file only because he was suffering from Down’s Syndrome. The patient and his family is suing the trust and his lawyers have filed papers at the High Court. Solicitors for the 51-year-old says the decision amounts to blatant prejudice.

Yorkshire patients lodged over 300 complaints per week about NHS services last year, reveals latest figures. Over 10,000 written complaints about hospital and community services and 5,000 complaints about GPs and dentists were made in 2011-12.

NHS will introduce “scorecards” to put an end to regional disparity of medicines and treatments. This scheme will allow public to compare the pace at which hospitals adopt new drugs and implement latest care methods. The Department of Health said, the scheme will be launched before autumn and after its launch hospitals won’t have any excuse to delay providing the latest approved drugs and treatments. Hospitals that do not act…

Dr Samina Tahseen at Royal Derby hospital failed to identify a patient’s fallopian tube that was to be removed causing her to remove the wrong fallopian tube. The patient is now unable to conceive naturally and the doctor has been criticised by tribunal for her “hasty, careless, and dismissive attitude.”

Thousands of patients are being put at risk by rationing of cataract operations by half warn eye surgeons who have united to condemn the decision of NHS trusts. Eye specialists have called the ‘clinically unsound’ rationing as ‘unfair restriction’ and dangerous for patients.

NHS spends £1.4 billion annually on kidney diseases, yet around million cases remain undiagnosed and untreated, revealed a new report commissioned by the NHS Kidney Centre. According to the report, 1.8 milliom people in England have been diagnosed with kidney diseases, but suggests there are one million undetected cases.

The National Health Service of the United Kingdom has approved the drug abiraterone, which prolongs the lives of men with terminal prostate cancer, for patients in Northern Ireland. The breakthrough drug has been found effective in extending the lives by more than three months but is very expensive. The drug is already available for use in England and Wales. The drug can significantly reduce pain and other symptoms of sufferers…

Investments in energy efficient fuel systems at NHS hubs like Guy’s and St.Thomas’ are helping to cut the costs and carbon level contributing to control climate change. A report published in a 2009 Lancet report suggests that climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century while energy efficiency initiatives taken up by NHS foundation trusts are paving the way to better and cleaner health services. NHS…