NHS staff delivered a record 18 million treatments in 2024, as the waiting list fell in December for the fourth month in a row. The overall backlog has dropped from 7.48 million to 7.46 million, while ...

Public feedback about NHS and social care support helps services spot problems, identify what's working well, and areas for improvement. Six in ten people don’t remember ever having done this. You can ...

Primary care colleagues are asked to note the roll-out of ePrescriptions for detainees upon their release, at over 120 places of detention. Most prescriptions will be issued to non-nominated ...

Mark Proctor, PCC associate considers how AI and automation can be successfully integrated into general practice to benefit everyone and reflects on recent developments to support the implementation.

Local communities will receive funding for family and school nurses, sexual health clinics and other public health services, thanks to a nearly £200 million boost in funding. As part of government ...

This report finds that in the first nine months since Pharmacy First was launched, community pharmacies have provided nearly 1.5 million consultations for the seven common conditions they were ...

The Dispensing Doctors Association, in conjunction with PCC, has published a briefing paper for Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments (PNAs) In England. Sign up to receive our daily news alerts straight to ...

Nearly 700,000 women across the country will take part in a trial to test how AI tools can be used to catch breast cancer cases earlier. Thirty testing sites across the country will be enhanced with ...

Tackling health inequalities remains one of the greatest challenges facing the NHS and the wider health sector today. This report argues that advances in digital technologies, data analytics, ...

The government’s mandate to NHS England sets out the objectives it should seek to achieve. This mandate will apply from 30 January 2025, until it is replaced. The objectives cover reforms to: cut ...

Supporting people at the end of life is an important element of public spending, yet there is little evidence available on how much money is being spent on it, and what that money goes on. Nuffield ...

The NHS is urging around 1.3 million older people who have not yet had the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine to get jabbed, as health service chiefs warn it is not just a winter illness. Invites are ...