Sometimes decisions around premises can feel full of risk, and achieving consensus among a diverse group of partners can be challenging. However, there are times when doing nothing can cause more ...

Around 3,000 deaths and 5,500 hospital admissions in England caused by chronic heart failure could be prevented each year following the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence updated draft ...

North East and Yorkshire explores the improvements that make it easier for patients to access the help they need and reduce pressure on staff. The series continues with an episode to mark Northern ...

Integrated care boards (ICBs) are developing their skills and capability to undertake population health needs assessments and commission services based on these needs. Some areas need specific ...

People affected and infected by the contaminated blood scandal in England can self-refer for psychological treatment from an NHS service. The service, which began treating its first patients last ...

NHS eye care is an important primary care service. The Model ICB highlights that this is an area in which ICBs need to grow their commissioning skills. Commissioners must make the contractual ...

More accurate human papillomavirus (HPV) testing will enable women and people with a cervix in England to benefit from more personalised cervical screening. From July, younger women (aged 25 to 49) ...

Last year the Chancellor announced £22.6bn in extra NHS funding. This briefing, which sets out the state of health care funding in England ahead of the Spending Review, shows that the £22.6bn is ...

The number hospital doctors and GPs taking advantage of the option to ‘partially retire’ has significantly slowed, NHS data reveals. According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Wesleyan ...

Latest ONS Health Insight Survey figures show an increase in patients finding it easier to contact their general practice team since July 2024 – up from 60 to 72 per cent – with up to three-quarters ...

Around 3 in 4 patients find it easy to contact a GP, up more than 10% since last summer. Almost every (99%) GP practice in England now has a digital telephone system in place to make it easier for ...