Rebecca Thomas

Exclusive: NHS figures leaked by whistleblower suggest more than 15,000 patients died in care of community mental health services in just one year – with desperate families forced to ‘beg’ for treatment from overstretched medical teams

NHS 111 used as a sex line by members of the public call handelers claim

Exclusive: Dr Camilla Kingdon has called on Rishi Sunak to appoint a dedicated children’s health minister so young people are not forgotten when major decisions are made

Exclusive: Rachel Luby tried to take her own life while left on a general ward where she was subjected to ‘degrading’ treatment

‘Changing the model of the NHS is not something the public wants – they just want the model they have got to work’ say NHS think tanks

Exclusive ‘The current system is not working and patient safety is paying the price’ says health ombudsman Rob Behrens

The princess said she was undergoing ‘preventative chemotherapy’ after revealing she had been diagnosed with cancer

Exclusive: Confidential review obtained by The Independent reveals trainee paramedics subjected to widespread sexual harassment and racist abuse by staff – with students reluctant to call out ‘extremely alarming’ behaviour for fear of being labelled ‘snowflakes’

Rape Crisis England and Wales has warned the ‘alarming’ scale of abuse – uncovered by The Independent – requires ‘major intervention’

Families of elderly people have come forward to share harrowing allegations of neglect as top doctors warn these patients are suffering ‘degrading’ care well below the standards the NHS expects, Rebecca Thomas reveals

The NHS has the lowest number of MRI and CT scanners per population of any developed country

Matthew Caseby climbed over a fence while left unsupervised and died 14 hours later

Exclusive: Scores of potentially dangerous healthcare workers in charge of vulnerable patients as regulator bosses fail to investigate growing backlog of misconduct cases

Exclusive: Government urged to expand children’s mental health hubs further amid worsening crisis

Waiting lists won’t reduce to pre-pandemic levels by December 2027 even in the best case sceario according to reserchers

New treatment could ‘disrupt’ growth of breast cancer tumours

As hospitals burst at the seams with almost 95 per cent of beds full, health correspondent Rebecca Thomas reveals one 73-year-old’s ‘nightmare’ experience on an NHS ward

Patients and ambulance staff have come to harm following roll out of government backed police plan

Martha Mills died from Sepsis in 2021 after staff at King’s College Hospital failed to admit her to critical care

Daniel Tucker’s family ‘devastated’ by failures in his care at Highbury Hospital, where Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane was also treated