National Medical Director Professor Sir Stephen Powis and Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty will lead a review into postgraduate training for newly qualified medics. The review is part ...

More than half of UK doctors (52%) now have a ‘portfolio career’ – holding one or more roles outside of a clinical medical contract Portfolio careers offer significant benefits that could help attract ...

Thomé, chair of PCC, reflects on the neighbourhood health policy and considers how this should be taken further through collaboration, as equal partners, between health workers, care workers and ...

Do you know the health literacy levels in your area? In England, 43% of working-age adults struggle to understand health information that uses words, rising to 61% when numbers are added (Rowlands et ...

NHS England has published a number of easy read and plain English newsletters about the work being done to make the NHS better for people with a learning disability and autistic people. GP practices ...

This research explores existing evidence on the impact of housing-related delayed hospital discharges and the important role that supported housing can play in preventing delays and alleviating ...

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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 ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), in partnership with National Voices and the Point of Care Foundation, has developed a self-assessment and improvement framework for integrated care systems (ICSs).

Under an expansion plan, 30 more A&Es will start testing for HIV in hospital emergency departments (ED) via the NHS blood borne virus opt-out testing programme (BBV). The expansion means 89 major ...

This report finds that the current lack of capacity in the mental health system means that far too many young people reach crisis point, putting pressure on emergency, urgent and crisis services. The ...