#uk-health

NHS Blood and Transplant's medical director has publicly criticised NHS England in a leaked letter, citing last-minute surgery cancellations, staff burnout, and 30 years of stagnant heart and lung transplant numbers.

A British humanitarian worker evacuated from the DR Congo is being monitored at a specialist London hospital after potential exposure to the Ebola virus. UK health authorities say the risk to the public remains very low.

Britain's medicines regulator approved trials of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed in just eight weeks, with testing on healthy adult volunteers now underway.