The UK is facing an "unprecedented wave of super flu", a health chief warned Friday as the health minister urged doctors to call off a threatened five-day strike ahead of Christmas.

Researchers at King’s College London will track the experiences of up to 3,000 children and teenagers who are being treated by Britain’s health service. By Chloe W. Shakin Shamsa Sharawe made her name ...

In the United Kingdom, residents have long considered the National Health Service (NHS) one of the nation's greatest accomplishments. Across the Atlantic, U.S. Democrats have proposed a similar single ...

Hours-long waits in the emergency department, patients treated in hallways in the midst of an intense flu season, and canceled elective surgeries are only a few of the problems the National Health ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved Monday to an intensive care unit in a London hospital after suffering worsening coronavirus symptoms. Johnson had been quarantined at his home since ...

LONDON — Despite being headlined by a genuine star and staged at one of London’s premier theaters, a play about the foundation of a sprawling and troubled public service seemed unlikely to provoke ...

Hospitals and health centres were assessed on the volume of services delivered and the readiness of facilities in terms of ...

In many ways, life in Great Missenden was idyllic, bucolic, sweet. The author Roald Dahl and the movie star Patricia Neal called their cottage there, in the rolling English countryside of ...

Britons build scarecrows to say thank you to health care workers The scarecrows, of all shapes and sizes and made by adults and children alike, stand like cheerful guards, showing their appreciation ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claps his hands outside 10 Downing Street during the weekly “Clap for our Carers” applause for the NHS and key workers on the front lines of the coronavirus.