The review headed by Professor Don Berwick (pictured), a world expert in patient safety, said there have been repeated safety defects in the NHS.

The Care Quality Commission will be able to act against a hospital if a patient’s dignity is compromised by companies such as Bounty approaching new mothers in maternity wards hours after giving birth.

If hospitals are forced to focus on quality instead of quantity and reduce the number of Medicare patients that return within 30 days after being first admitted for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia, a new healthcare accountability program…

The Department of Veterans Affairs, representing 152 VA medical centers, which includes the Cincinnati VA Medical Center, was recently named to the 2013 “Most Wired” hospitals list. The list, which is released by Hospitals & Health…

Medical errors are one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and what's even more shocking is that the harm often is preventable. Hospitals often make egregious errors ranging from minor mistakes to treating …

They will form 15-strong squads with doctors and nurses which will carry out thorough investigations of all NHS trusts over the next two years.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced NHS ‘hit squads’ will now take over failing trusts, where an estimated 13,000 people may have died since 2005.

A major review of patient safety will find that as many as 21 hospitals are still failing the most critically ill people – especially the elderly and emergency cases – four years after the Mid Staffs scandal claimed hundreds of lives.

Limited supplies have been allowed to come in from Egypt and Israel in recent days to alleviate the crisis, said Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza City. Those amounts were able to give most hospitals a three-to-five …

Sian Clarke, 19, from Smith’s Wood, Solihull, West Midlands, was sectioned under the Mental Health Act weighing just five stone 11.6 pounds last October.