An elderly patient in a wheelchair at a hospital in England. An NHS regulatory has claimed that around 10,000 patients are killed each year by the “dangerously” variable treatment by hospital and doctors in England. According to a report published in The Guardian on Tuesday, Care Quality Commission (CQC) chair David Prior warned that many patients receive poor care which leads to many thousands... 

Britain’s Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has demanded the Foods Standards Agency (FSA) conduct an urgent inquiry into two UK factories’ alleged poor hygiene practices. The factories are at the heart of a campylobacter scandal that could pose a serious risk to public health. A body of contentious evidence amassed by Guardian journalists over a five month period has prompted Hunt to request... 

A study shows that Britain has a worse record of premature death than other developed countries. Britain has a worse record of premature death than other developed countries, a new research reveals. According to a detailed analysis of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease data, in 1990 the UK ranked 10th in a league table of 19 countries showing years of life lost (YLL) per 100,000 members of the population....