Forcing hospital consultants to work on site on Saturdays without additional staff will damage patient care, doctors warn

A doctor at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital says 103 patients were queuing at 11.15pm on Wednesday, waiting to be seen by just seven doctors.

Mark Mansfield Patients being treated on trolleys in hospital corridors has become one of the most visible signs of the pressure facing the NHS in Wales. Every major emergency department in the country was found to be using corridors or other inappropriate spaces to treat patients during a snapshot survey last year, wh

A security personnel was allegedly assaulted at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) in Hyderabad in the early hours of Monday after the attendant of a patient who was brought to the Emergency Department with no signs of life abused and threatened doctors and other healthcare workers.The incident occurred at ar

Nurses say corridor care and staff shortages are putting patients at risk.