Too many people in England receive poor quality out-of-hours doctors’ services, the Patients Association has warned. In some areas, a fifth of patients described the service as "poor" or "very poor". Some 1.1m patients responded to the government survey. Richmond...

Out-of-hours medical services are still "not good enough", the health minister has said in the wake of the unlawful killing of a patient. Mike O’Brien made the comment in the Commons following David Gray’s death in Cambridgeshire in February 2008. Mr Gray, 70, died...

There is an unacceptable variation between GP out-of-hours services, the government admits. But health minister Mike O’Brien said care had still improved since doctors gave up providing cover in 2004. He was speaking after a report suggested marked differences in levels of cover and...

By Nick TriggleHealth reporter, BBC News A coroner is due to give his verdict into the deaths of two patients treated by an overseas out-of-hours doctor on his first NHS shift. David Gray, 70, from Cambridgeshire, died in 2008 from an overdose of the painkiller diamorphine after being seen by...