Cutting back on virtual wards would be “short-sighted” and lead to longer hospital stays and more readmissions, a leading consultant has warned.Dr Andrew Barlow, a respiratory physician and clinical ...

Currently, there is no requirement from the NHS for health trusts to record the restraint of children on paediatric wards ... information responses from 54 hospital trusts across England ...

The government has pledged to drastically reduce the number of patients facing long waits in A&E, with plans also set out to ...

which also means they spend less time in hospital and that paediatric beds are there for the children that need them most, when they need them." The NHS said people using virtual wards recover ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has again rated services for children and young people at Tameside General Hospital, at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, as good, following ...

A new national Urgent and Emergency Care Plan has been published today (June 6), sets out an almost £450m investment package ...

of the need to significantly improve the way we deliver children and young people's services". Improvements at the hospital were later noted by the regulator and the local NHS did a "rapid quality ...

A charity which supports seriously ill children has partnered with Oxford Children's Hospital. The hospital ... seriously ill children as possible in NHS hospitals, homes and hospices across ...

“Time in hospital can be hard for children ... Image: The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Abbie Wood, senior sister on the children’s ward, who joined in the fun, said: “It was a great ...