New Legal Rights for Britain’s NHS Patients

Patients in Britain will have legal rights to maximum waiting times for elective procedures and urgent cancer referrals and to an NHS Health Check every five years for those aged 40-74, if proposals published today are taken forward. The proposals, set...

Stroke Calls Up 55% Following ACT F.A.S.T. Campaign

The Department of Health’s Act F.A.S.T. campaign has led to an increase of more than half (55.5%) in stroke calls to the emergency services (999). New research published today also shows that 84% of the public remember the campaign and its graphic depiction...