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SIR – I received an NHS letter postmarked February 9 at 12.30pm on February 16. My X-ray appointment was for 3pm. Thankfully I was able to attend. Had the appointment been sooner, it would have been another one missed.
Junior doctors are about to stage their 10th strike over the last year in a dispute over pay and working conditions that's cost billions and caused millions of delays.
Bed blockers in NHS hospitals have reached a new record high with one in seven patients fit enough to be discharged.
Patients with frailty, acute respiratory infections and heart failure can be treated on virtual wards, also known as hospitals at home.
Hospital doctors in England on Wednesday began their longest consecutive strike in the seven-decade history of Britain's National Health Service (NHS). Julian Hartley, the chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital groups in England, said the effect of the strikes on patients would be "significant".