NHS England is running a pilot to test a case-finding approach, aimed at increasing the number of eligible people referred from primary care for investigation of pancreatic cancer. The goal is to ...

Every maternity service in England will need to meet new clinical standards, set out by the NHS, to significantly reduce the number of women who die each year during or after pregnancy.    All ...

Letter from Dr Amanda Doyle, National Director for Primary Care and Community Services, providing information on specialist advice and the introduction of elective single points of access (SPoAs).

Home; Specialised commissioning document library; Legacy routinely commissioned policies for drugs now in tariff effective April 2026; Legacy routinely commissioned policies for d ...

The kit, known as the faecal immunochemical test (FIT), checks for blood in a small stool sample, which can be a sign of bowel cancer. FIT kits are used at home by putting a poo sample in a small tube ...

People who are eligible for their spring COVID-19 vaccination will be invited to come forward by the NHS, but you do not need to wait for this to book. You can download the NHS App and make an ...

Teams and individuals across North East and Yorkshire have been named as regional champions in the first NHS Excellence Awards, recognising work that is improving care for patients and communities.

Primary care networks (PCNs) build on the core work of current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for ...

The Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) programme delivers training and restorative supervision for colleagues right across England. The programme launched in March 2021, towards the end of the third ...

From 1 July 2026, NHS England will deliver some activities previously undertaken by the National Guardian’s Office, and healthcare organisations will take on greater responsibility and accountability ...

A&E waiting times have fallen to a five-year low, despite the NHS seeing record numbers of patients in March as the health service experienced a ‘prolonged winter’. There were a record breaking 2.43 ...