Dearbhail Ormond was diagnosed with endometriosis after seeing 20 doctors across 18 years.

MSPs will get the chance to make Scotland the first part of the UK to let people legally end their lives.

Other so-called never events include a patient almost having the wrong toe amputated during surgery.

Like TV presenter Kate Garraway, other families are struggling with the cost of care.

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The rising cost of getting children to school is a key driver of current pressure on council budgets.

Just 24% of Britons say they are satisfied, citing waiting times and lack of staff as key concerns.

Faith Harrison says she was given a second chance following her heart attack after a hockey game.

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BBC News has seen emails from senior NHS bosses saying some patients could be at risk.

Consultants at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital warned patient safety was "seriously compromised&…

More than 27,000 healthcare workers in England will receive one-off payments of at least £1,600.

Junior doctors begin their longest walkout to date until Friday in a dispute over pay.

He spent 72 years using an iron lung machine to breathe after surviving polio as a child.

A group representing hundreds of clinicians wants to highlight a culture "detrimental to patient safet…

In a video message she said she started preventative chemotherapy last month.

The prescription drug has been linked to a number of deaths in the UK and around the world.

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