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 ...

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 ...

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.

GP premises are essential to the delivery of NHS primary medical services. Commissioners have the responsibility to make the necessary reimbursements for premises costs to GP contractors, but there ...

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

This review was commissioned by NHS England in October 2022. The report looks at the full economic costs of delivering NHS pharmaceutical services, and how these costs vary across and within: ...

Almost 600,000 beds were taken up by patients with COVID, flu, RSV or norovirus this winter (594,937 from 25 November 2024 – 30 March 2025), as NHS services experienced a ‘quad-demic’ of viruses. The ...

This briefing will help NHS trusts to understand upcoming reforms, consider improvements to patient communications, and optimise their use of available postal services.