A draft guideline published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence aims to address widespread variation by recommending a standardised approach to rehabilitation across five major ...

General practices are facing unprecedented pressures. Increasing demands – not just a heavier workload but the increasing complexity and intensity of work can lead to a feeling of crisis. The long ...

NHS England delegated commissioning responsibility for 70 specialised services to all integrated care boards (ICBs) in the North East and Yorkshire, London, South East and South West regions. In ...

PCC’s programme for women developing in a leadership role in health and social care focusses on growing the confidence to work across the system and the influence to reach across organisational ...

More than 100,000 baby loss certificates have been issued to parents who have lost a pregnancy, allowing them to formally recognise their loss. Baby loss certificates offer a way of providing comfort ...

The Government and the Wellcome Trust will invest up to £600 million to create a new Health Data Research Service. This will transform access to NHS data by providing a secure single access point to ...

An information giving interactive virtual course, comprising of three sessions, which introduces commissioners to the primary care medical contracts (GMS, PMS and APMS). This training contains ...

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) services provide intravenous antimicrobial treatment outside hospitals, administered by healthcare professionals or patients/carers. This guidance ...

80,000 patients across the country have had shorter waits for life-changing cancer diagnoses because of the government’s investment to reduce waiting times.

Just 1 in 5 people in 2024 said they were satisfied with the way the NHS runs. This is the lowest level of satisfaction recorded since the survey began in 1983. More….

While change has been a constant in the NHS for some time, the forthcoming 10-year plan, with the drive to care for people as close to home as possible and improve people’s health, at the same time as ...

The advice and guidance service supports care in the right place for patients. This framework aims to ensure consistent service improvement, innovation, and reduce unwarranted variation in advice and ...