Every once in a while, we like to take a moment and focus on health systems around the world. Today, we're looking at Taiwan, which made the transition to a single payer system kind of suddenly, and pretty recently.

Sir Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, told leaders at the King’s Fund conference in central London that NHS staff did a “brilliant job” in the summer managing strikes by doctors.



But he suggested that a further...

In lavish ceremony to open Parliament, monarch says Brexit is Conservative government's priority.

The state of health service tops agenda after photo emerges of four-year-old patient on floor of emergency department.

Britain's healthcare system, free at the point of access, is on the table in post-Brexit trade talks, documents suggest.

Criminals simultaneously held thousands of computers ransom Friday in an attack involving a leaked U.S. cyberweapon

Jerome Segura, lead malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, on keeping hospitals safe

Access to healthcare and long waiting list are shaping up to be a key issue at the upcoming UK general election.

The U.K.'s new Conservative Party Leader Liz Truss promised to cut taxes, deal with the country's energy crisis and address the struggling National Health Service.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the country has to prevent overwhelming the National Health Service with coronavirus cases to continue with the high degree of freedom the country now enjoys. (Victoria Jones/Associated Press)

The centenarian gained fame last year after raising tens of millions of dollars for the UK’s National Health Service amid pandemic.

Vaccine recipients at a church in Salisbury, England, being used as a mass vaccination centre, to speak about their experiences. Among them are health-care workers, the elderly over 70, and the clinically vulnerable.

British officials have been criticized for taking too long to take action against the COVID-19 pandemic, and now the U.K. is on the verge of having the deadliest outbreak in Europe. 

The Nightingale Hospital, a new makeshift hospital in London, is one of the largest in the world with room for 4,000 COVID-19 patients.

Londoners take part in the "Clap for Carers" tribute. People around the U.K. took to their doorsteps and windows at 8 p.m. local time to salute the front-line workers in the National Health Service who are dealing with the COVID-19...

Italy is under full lockdown while other countries take a more laid-back approach.

A trial conducted by the National Health Service or the NHS plans to use a brain-computer interface, something that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound and claims to boost patients' mood. Watch this video to find out more.

A blood test that can detect cancer before symptoms develop is being assessed for potential NHS use, health officials have said.



Health Secretary Wes Streeting will announce that the Government is backing the next phase of...

*GRAPHIC CONTENT* Bowel cancer patient Kelly Buckle, 40, is operated on by surgeon Miss Nuha Yassin, during a state-of-the-art robot assisted surgery performed by the NHS at Solihull Surgical Hub in Solihull Hospital, West Midlands. The...

Speaking during a visit to UHI Perth College to mark the start of Scottish Women and Girls in Sport Week, First Minister John Swinney said he will not order an investigation into his predecessor’s conduct when his parents-in-law were...

The NHS “doesn’t just belong” to the British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors’ committee, the Health Secretary has said as medics continue their record-breaking, walkout.



Victoria Atkins said that the health...

IF it helps, this is what I've filed: It will take Labour two terms in office to turn around the “existential” challenges faced by the NHS and social care, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said.



He said the challenges...

Junior doctors and consultants in England have launched their longest period of joint strike action after beginning their three-day walkout.



Both sets of staff will deliver “Christmas Day” levels of staffing from 7am on...

Junior doctors and consultants in England have launched their longest period of joint strike action after beginning their three-day walkout. Footage from a picket line at Royal Derby Hospital and interview with Dr Mohammed Hussain.