The NHS says it has secured a rescue package of alternative medical cement to allow joint surgery to continue. Last week ...

Around 1,000 operations a week rely on the product as patients are warned delays are inevitable.

Women who have faced long waits for breast surgery in Sheffield are calling for improved treatment times, saying the delays ...

Two alternative providers of medical cement, critical to trauma and elective orthopaedic surgery procedures, have been ...

Hospitals across Britain were told to postpone treatments last week, including knee and hip replacements, after problems ...

Planned surgery is being reviewed but emergency and urgent trauma operations continue as normal.

Thousands of NHS knee replacement operations are canceled at short notice every year, many for avoidable reasons, according to a new study. This costs the NHS millions of pounds and increases waiting ...

A major new study, led by Queen Mary University of London and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has been published in The Lancet Public Health.

Pressure on operating theatres is a major constraint on NHS surgical capacity, with workforce shortages, limited beds, and lack of theatre time all contributing to long waiting lists. Against this ...

Dental provision is expected to nearly double in a town where residents have struggled to get treatment on the NHS. East ...

A woman whose long-term dentist went private said it is "wonderful" that a new NHS surgery has opened in her town. Heather Bubb, 77, had been with her dentist in Wellington in Somerset for more than ...