Exclusive: Whistleblowers treated at Berkshire mental health hospital shed ‘tears of joy’ over its immediate closure - after The Independent revealed scandal of systemic abuse

Exclusive: The ‘hidden’ monthly trolley waits are not published in national data

Covid waves are likely to have a ‘deleterious’ impact on hospital waiting times, warns senior medic

Exclusive: Hospital leaders in the last week have been told by the NHS that they must improve ambulance response times immediately

Exclusive: ‘I realised that I’d just had it, I’d had enough, I couldn’t do it any more,’ says one ICU nurse

Exclusive: ‘I realised that I’d just had it, I’d had enough, I couldn’t do it any more,’ says one ICU nurse

Investigation: Scores of patients in mental health units have died from physical illnesses that could have been avoided. Rebecca Thomas uncovers systemic issues in the health service that experts say...

Special Report: Across the NHS, from routine care to emergency treatment, health leaders tell Rebecca Thomas that pressure brought on by the pandemic has become unsustainable – with patients’ lives...

Investigation: Private mental health group was paid £190m by NHS despite hundreds of warnings over care, reports Rebecca Thomas

Exclusive: Christmas is going ahead but ‘we’re going to suffer for it afterwards’ says senior NHS source

Exclusive: Suspensions come after inquiry into allegations of ‘serious conduct’ at Highbury Hospital in Nottinghamshire

Exclusive: Three police officers probed over allegations they failed to investigate initial reports of rape and sexual abuse by care worker

‘Clinically vulnerable people have just become collateral damage in political considerations’, says Charlotte Augst CEO of National Voices

Exclusive: NHS publishes data showing almost 1 million 12-hour trolley waits in 2021-22

Exclusive: Thousands of adults have been left waiting for months for care. Health correspondent Rebecca Thomas reveals how this is leading to avoidable patient deaths

Exclusive: Rachel Luby tried to take her own life while left on a general ward where she was subjected to ‘degrading’ treatment

Exclusive: ‘Realistically’ NHS does not have capacity for any new promises this month, jab chief warns government

Exclusive ‘The current system is not working and patient safety is paying the price’ says health ombudsman Rob Behrens

A learning disability care provider said it has received an "unprecedented" number of do not resuscitate forms from doctors that it believes to be illegal.

Exclusive A&E departments ‘crippled’ by ‘huge’ trolley waits as patients come to harm, doctors warn

A major investigation by The Independent’s Rebecca Thomas and Sky News’s Rob Mulhern has revealed the horrific scale of sexual abuse and assault within the UK’s psychiatric system

Exclusive: NHS figures leaked by whistleblower suggest more than 15,000 patients died in care of community mental health services in just one year – with desperate families forced to ‘beg’ for...

Deaths of patients detained under the Mental Health Act are running at twice the rate of 2019, with half of the fatalities down to covid-19, new data has revealed.

New report from government advisory body warns deaths in custody remain ‘far too high’

Exclusive: Bradford District Care NHS Trust left with sewage on its wards and dozens of patients sharing bathrooms

Some patients needing urgent responses left waiting almost two hours in June as ambulance crisis deepens

Exclusive: Kyiv medics issue urgent appeal as oxygen and other vital supplies run out

Special Report: For more than 10 years, this 28-year-old has been trapped in dementia care units and A&E wards, abused by nurses and held in padded rooms. In all this time, he’s never had the care he...

New figures suggested an NHS England pledge on reducing the number of inpatients had not been met.

From counselling and community care to emergency departments, every level of NHS mental health services is on the brink – and it’s patients who are suffering. Health correspondent Rebecca Thomas...

Exclusive: Trust chief executive warns a woman with learning disabilities waited 300 hours in A&E

Investigation: Young girls and their families tried to raise the alarm about a scandal-hit private hospital chain. They tell Rebecca Thomas they did not even receive a response from officials

Exclusive: NHS trust warns it had 15 patients waiting for mental health care within its A&E, as bed crisis worsens

Exclusive: Nursing regulator took years to address reports of alleged sexual harassment from a nurse, reveals Rebecca Thomas

Police are investigating allegations around the death of a patient who was under the care of Hertfordshire Partnership University Foundation Trust.

As hospitals burst at the seams with almost 95 per cent of beds full, health correspondent Rebecca Thomas reveals one 73-year-old’s ‘nightmare’ experience on an NHS ward

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Exclusive: Health service ombudsman has never before taken action of this kind against a trust

Exclusive: ‘It’s desperate, there’s no two ways about it’

Deaths of those with learning disabilities and autism from covid-19 are to be analysed by Public Health England, HSJ can reveal.

Exclusive: Nursing charity has seen a 140 per cent increase in workers asking for emergency financial help in 2022

Exclusive: Frail elderly and mentally ill will suffer most this winter, warns Dr Adrian Boyle

Exclusive: Top A&E doctor warns NHS’s most vulnerable patients are not being given the chance to recover because they are in the wrong ward

Families of elderly people have come forward to share harrowing allegations of neglect as top doctors warn these patients are suffering ‘degrading’ care well below the standards the NHS expects,...

Daniel Tucker’s family ‘devastated’ by failures in his care at Highbury Hospital, where Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane was also treated

Dozens more patients have come forward with stories of abuse following The Independent’s investigation