Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment at Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust in December, new figures show.

In all, 38,561 patients waited more than 24 hours to be given a bed in a ward, of which 12,452 waited more than 36 hours – a ...

Teenagers occupy more hospital beds than children, justifying calls for special adolescent wards, a leading expert said today. New research published in the British Medical Journal showed that ...

Staff at a hospital in Lancashire have been left heartbroken after learning that a much loved ward is set to close. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening Post, you can get ...

INSPECTORS found that urgent and emergency services at Whiston Hospital had a shortage of nursing staff and that frequent delays in ambulance handovers led to patients being treated in non-clinical ...

“Everything is by force here,” said Feroza Tahiri, a midwife working at a public hospital in Nangarhar province. Despite this, “we tell them you’ll be seen like everyone else”, she sai ...

Whiston Hospital's patients said staff treated them with "kindness" despite the pressures A hospital's A&E department was found to be so short-staffed that nurses were caring for double the number ...

A hospital's A&E department was found to be so short-staffed that nurses were caring for double the number of patients they should have been, an inspection discovered. Merseyside's Whiston ...

Earlier this month, Whiston Hospital declared a critical incident after becoming overwhelmed with the number of patients visiting it's accident and emergency department. Whiston, which is run by the ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report following an unannounced inspection of urgent and emergency services at Whiston Hospital, run by Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals ...

Hospital beds inside the veterans’ ward at the Eastern Visayas Medical Center in Tacloban City. The facility is funded by the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office. TACLOBAN CITY—The Eastern ...