According to a recent research, there has been a huge increase in the number of people suffering from type-2 diabetes. It has been found that the people of the age group below 40 years have been hit the hardest.

According to an alarming report prepared by the College of Emergency Medicine, it has been revealed that approximately 20% of casualty wards are handled by junior doctors at night.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has raised concerns over shockingly low dementia diagnosis rate. Hunt has gone through data of different parts of the country and found all of them varying and only 33% of the sufferers were able to receive needed screening.

Warnings by Health Minister Norman Lamb suggest that an ageing population has pushed NHS and social-care system to the brink of collapse.

Another blunder was revealed at the NHS when seven-inch forceps were forgotten inside the body of a former nurse.

The nurse, who was mother of four children, Donna Bowett, had a keyhole surgery to remove her gallbladder, but was left in immense pain for three months.

Introduction of new plans that were launched to tackle the crisis in accident and emergency (A&E) units were marred by leaked emails. These emails disclosed panic among health officials about the amount of money they can make available to assist struggling hospitals.

The NHS as well as Bupa have blacklisted a private hospital in Surrey. Since, an official report had concluded that the hospital was providing potentially unsafe standards of care.

Recently, the telephone advice service number had failed because of some technical reasons. So, currently the NHS is working to decipher whether there was any harm or injury because of the same.

The NHS has called the mishaps as "serious untoward incidents" (SUIs). Patients call on this number when they suffer from any harm of a huge degree.

It has recently emerged that Southern trust in Northern Ireland is planning to close all of its NHS residential care homes in the area. The trust revealed the same in an interaction with the BBC's Nolan Show.

As suggested by lead doctor, the government is displaying an "overly simplistic and inaccurate" image of the present burdens faced by the hospital A&E departments.