A “BEAUTIFUL” six-year-old girl died when a needle accidentally hit her artery during a “minor” hospital procedure – and now ...

Victims of the infected blood scandal are demanding faster action on compensation as the body set up to handle claims admits it has "started small". More than 30,000 people contracted HIV and ...

The latest statistics show the UK’s incidence of this often fatal disease surpasses that of almost all European countries ...

The government has set aside £11.8bn to compensate victims of the infected blood scandal, after a public inquiry found the ...

But it isn't just smokers and red meat eaters who are at risk of cancer (although both of those have been proven to increase ...

She says she does not have the correct blood type to undergo treatment using available drugs, and immunotherapy will only p ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Yet I know, sadly, many cancer patients don’t experience the NHS at its best. The tough reality is that, after years of neglect, too many ...

Four in five cases of disease are diagnosed when patients have scans for unrelated conditions or in emergency departments, ...

A young woman who has survived cancer three times became a paramedic - to "give back" to the NHS. Katherine Murrell, from ...

At the weekend, a report said the NHS spots almost all cases of kidney cancer by accident. Wes Streeting told The Telegraph he was one of the 80 per cent whose cancer was spotted by chance ...