The NHS has delivered more than 3.1 million additional appointments since July 2024 and hit the ambitious faster diagnosis standard for cancer. Monthly performance data shows that there were more than ...

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 Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have published new advice to help GP practices embed equality considerations in the NHS services they provide, specifically around guarding against the ...

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 ...

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: ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...