experts say years of cuts to nhs budgets and staff has led to patients waiting longer for ­chemotherapy and radiotherapy..

the family of an elderly woman found dead on the floor of a hospital ward have said staff at altnagelvin denied her her dignity and prevented them from saying a final goodbye..

the provider paid out on 7,469 life and 1,769 critical illness claims in the year, with men accounting for 59 per cent of life claims and 47 per cent of critical illness claims..

the obvious reason: their big-spending pharmaceutical advertisers would drop them like hot potatoes..