Letter from NHS England providing information on specialist advice and the introduction of elective single points of access (SPoAs). The letter provides information and guidance to GPs and their ...

Experience of care week 2026 takes place week commencing 27 April. This annual, week-long celebration highlights the importance of improving patient, family, and staff experiences within health and ...

This report finds that there is no evidence that insurance-based healthcare systems outperform tax-funded systems. The analysis – spanning 22 high-income countries – concludes that switching the NHS ...

This report finds that one in three people aged 75 and over can only get to see their doctor if they book digitally, and the same proportion feel they are cut off from care. With nearly 90% of older ...

Community pharmacies across North East London took part in a pilot programme commissioned by Barts Health NHS Trust to deliver cholesterol point of care testing. The initiative formed part of a wider ...

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

Figures show the government is on track to hit ambitious clinical trial targets. The latest UK clinical research delivery key performance indicators show the average time to set up a commercial ...

The National Cancer Plan for England will struggle to achieve its 2029 waiting time targets and aim of bringing care into the 21st century without urgently reforming multi-disciplinary team working, a ...

A&E waiting times have fallen to a five-year low, despite the NHS seeing record numbers of patients in March. There were a record breaking 2.43 million total A&E attendances in March – 16,000 more ...

The role of the Yorkshire & Humber Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network (Y&H PCC ODN) is to coordinate patient pathways between providers that care for critically unwell children ...

The ODN does not own or manage the formularies and therefore cannot accept responsibility for any out-of-date contents. Clinicians must accept individual responsibility for using this information and ...