More than half of England’s care home residents have received their spring Covid-19 vaccine from the NHS in the past four weeks. Over 155,000 people (52%) have received the jab since the NHS began ...

Local pharmacies will be able to dispense medicines more efficiently, the government has announced. Currently, larger pharmacy chains can take advantage of the efficiencies and cost-savings that come ...

The NHS is encouraging local dental practices with the highest demand to hire new dentists using a new recruitment incentive scheme. Around 240 dentists will be offered bonus payments of up to £20,000 ...

People with sight loss in England will find it easier to participate in life-saving bowel cancer screening thanks to a new specially designed NHS tool. People who are blind or partially sighted will ...

The NHS has met the 28 day faster diagnosis target for cancer for the second month in a row, according to new figures, with ambulances responding to callouts faster than the month before. Almost ...

A plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a global issue that makes infections difficult or impossible to treat, has been launched. The plan will commit the UK to reducing its use of ...

This report confirms widening inequalities in life expectancy between regions in England and within local authorities since 2010. These widening inequalities are associated with an average reduction ...

Successful organisations keep their employees engaged. Having an empowered culture helps. There are several factors that influence workplace culture, its often driven by people and how they behave and ...

Messages sent to millions of patients via the NHS App have saved the NHS £1.1 million on the cost of previously sending the information via text message. During 2023/24, 22.5 million messages were ...

In a blog, Professor Bola Owolabi, director of NHS England’s National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme, talks about the pivotal role community health and wellbeing workers (CHWWs) are ...

Thousands of patients with sickle cell disorder are to be offered a new treatment on the NHS. Up to 4,000 people with sickle cell disease in England could benefit from the drug Voxelotor if ...

The NHS is to roll out laser beam therapy to help reduce seizures for patients with epilepsy. The cutting-edge fibre optic laser therapy, known as Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT), targets ...