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Labour has promised a £330m cancer treatment fund which will fund drugs, radiotherapy and surgery beyond what the current Cancer Drugs Fund offers, if the party wins the next election.

There is a wide variety in the ways complaints are being handled across the NHS, primary care and social care services in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found.

From April to November The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has upheld nearly double the number of complaints compared to the same period last year.

NHS hospitals are failing to listen to concerns raised by visitors, contractors and others, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Healthwatch England has found.

The Chancellor's Autumn Statement has confirmed the £2bn payment for the NHS announced at the weekend as well as more money for GPs and carers.

More patients are reporting a good overall A&E experience with the NHS, however many improvements remain to be made, a patient survey by the Care Quality Commission has found.

Two reports from the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) have shown that there is a major shortage of NHS doctors and nurses in stroke care.

Declan Dunne, a surgical registrar from Liverpool, took out income protection after seeing a junior doctor develop MS and suffer a severe decrease in lifestyle.

The King's Fund has called for more money to be found in the autumn statement to prevent a financial crisis in the NHS.

Poor communication has topped the complaints received by the Parliamentary And Health Service Ombudsman.