BASILDON Hospital will be unable to cope with added pressure and demand if more than 27,000 new homes are built across the borough, an MP has told Parliament. Tory MP for Rayleigh and Wickford ...

A NEW company could be created to take control of Basildon Council’s temporary accommodation in a bid to cut costs and tackle homelessness. Basildon Council’s cabinet will debate the ...

but were not always visible themselves on the wards. Staff at Basildon Hospital told the inspectors they did not feel encouraged to raise safety incidents as leaders did not always reply to them.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A boy and a girl died in the incident in Walthams Place in Pitsea, near Basildon, on Saturday at about 6.25pm. Essex Police said the car failed ...

Staff shortages at a major hospital trust put the safety of expectant mothers and their babies at risk, a regulator warned. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated the maternity services at ...

Any wintry showers over the hills this evening will transition to rain overnight. The rest of the night will continue cloudy with rain which will tend to become patchier by dawn. Saturday Patchy ...

Pat Rackley, 75, said Basildon Hospital’s A&E was “disgusting” with “11 bowls of sick” left on the floor and broken toilets. The pensioner, from Laindon, had gone to the hospital’s ...

TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE, Philippines — The Eastern Visayas Medical Center (EVMC), the biggest government-run hospital in the region based in this city, has opened a 15-bed ward intended for war ...

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 ...

The closure of a hospital ward is among the "real-world impacts" of the difficulties facing a hospital trust in "financial special measures", its chief executive has told a board meeting.

New mothers and babies at North Shore Hospital have endured the stench of human waste after a plumbing fault caused a sewage leak in the maternity ward. Health NZ Te Whatu Ora said a pipe blockage ...