Back in September, I asked the Independent Safeguarding Authority how it had arrived at the figure of 11.3 million adults who would need to be vetted before they could be allowed regular access to children (their own excluded, naturally).

More than three quarters of US medical students believe that Western medicine would benefit from integrating more complementary and alternative therapies and ideas.

Reservations on today’s report by Nuffield Trust which compares funding and healthcare performance across the UK centre on: Rurality (which not even comparison between Scotland and North East England redresses), Reporting standards, Right measures, Responsiveness, and Repeat attendances.

Here's a story to warm the heart. Altruistic kidney donation has gone up by 50 per cent!

Media commentators have been having fun with a story in the Evening Standard of March 30. “Flu pandemic could kill 94,000 people in London” wrote Tim Ross and Mark Prigg, as swine flu fever threw those of a nervous disposition into a panic.

Drinking can damage your liver, as we've all known for a long time. But how many moderate drinkers end up in NHS liver-wards?

IS healthcare in Britain good, bad, or indifferent? We spend £100 billion a year on it, so it would be nice to know.

IF a leaflet given to women claimed that hormone replacement therapy reduced the risk of colon cancer by 50 per cent, but increased the risk of breast cancer by six in a thousand, what might they c

ANOTHER hospital has called in the Healthcare Commission because it has suffered a run of deaths in its heart transplant programme.