Integrated care boards are responsible for ensuring their population can access NHS dentistry. As commissioners, they or those working with them, must ensure appropriate contractual arrangements are ...

Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds will benefit from a comprehensive package to break down long‑standing barriers into healthcare careers. Careers in the medical profession, particularly doct ...

This report reveals huge gaps in dementia training across social care: half of staff receive just one to two hours of dementia learning despite 70% of care home residents living with the condition. It ...

NHS England is leading a major transformation of digital services across NHS adult screening programmes, replacing paper-based and old-fashioned IT with modern digital services. This quarterly update ...

Eligible older people and those with a weakened immune system can get protection from Covid-19 with NHS spring vaccinations. Tens of thousands of appointments are now available every day at GP ...

Integrated care boards must ensure people can access NHS primary eye care services. They must make appropriate contractual arrangements and manage them in line with policy and guidance. Unfortunately, ...

More people are benefiting from bowel screening compared to a decade ago. Almost 7 million people have had bowel screening from the NHS during 2024/25, compared to around 4.7 million in 2014/15. Since ...

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 ...

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 ...

These minimum standards support integrated care boards (ICBs) as they commission keyworking services for autistic children and young people and children and young people with a learning disability who ...

This programme established local GP hubs to increase capacity, improving patient access and generating financial savings.

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 ...