United Kingdom Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from United Kingdom with our JSON API.

Get API key for the United Kingdom Health News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 146320,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "3b36080d270a9cc1894baa824678be76",
            "title": "Hampshire boy's hospital treatment was appropriate, inquest told",
            "description": "Five-year-old Jax Jefferys died from a bacterial infection after being discharged from QA hospital.",
            "content": "An independent medical expert told an inquest the treatment given to a five-year-old boy who died from invasive Strep A infection was \"appropriate\".\nJax Jefferys, from Waterlooville, Hampshire, died on 1 December 2022, the day after he was discharged... [1372 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4rxzry9pvo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/dc40/live/4f168c10-632a-11f1-b1df-ebbb1d0d8a09.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-11T15:07:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "056ae635f89f8eeb23856409ee1c8c1e",
            "title": "New AI in Surrey 'filling in gaps' in lung cancer diagnoses",
            "description": "The technology is being rolled out at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.",
            "content": "Artificial intelligence (AI) will help with \"filling in those gaps\" when it comes to lung cancer diagnoses in England, a hospital trust manager says.\nAI is being rolled out in Surrey to help speed up cancer diagnoses as part of a national £20m govern... [3189 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr40j6mldlo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/1ccf/live/fd30e140-6589-11f1-be7e-9d9e15bac6ec.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:39:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "97271b40b74a8534545405432cdd516e",
            "title": "Contaminated cocaine and heroin batches in Somerset cause alarm",
            "description": "The incidents in Somerset have prompted a call for a debate around the checking of drugs.",
            "content": "Two batches of contaminated cocaine and heroin have been reported in a county in the space of two weeks.\nThe incidents in Somerset have prompted a call for a debate around whether there should be more widely available checking of drugs for contaminat... [3724 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04ylqk1dewo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/c483/live/429e6ad0-9561-11f0-a3c3-898ca8bade9c.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-11T13:37:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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