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 again from 7.48 million to 7.46 million, ...

Joint note by the Office for National Statistics and NHS England, February 2025 The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes annual public service productivity analysis for all service areas in ...

NHS staff are working harder than ever to get services back on track, to get waiting lists down and consistently deliver the best care. We know change is needed. But we also know that many of the ...

The NHS is committed to supporting people who live and work in and around care homes. People living in care homes should expect the same level of support as if they were living in their own home – but ...

Around 100 frontline NHS staff will be joined by NHS England directors in Liverpool today (11 Feb 2025) to discuss what they want to see from the government’s 10 Year Health Plan. It marks the first ...

The establishment of new care models requires new, simpler, more outcome focused contractual forms. There is currently no single form of contract which may be used to commission both general practice ...

Pioneers seeking to establish new models of care are likely to require the development of different organisational forms requiring new governance, financial flows and risk sharing arrangements between ...

The establishment of new models of care requires the development of new forms of pricing of services and probably some form of capitated budgets. Some good progress has already been made in a number ...

Forward View sets out a commitment to create new relationships with communities and citizens, rethinking the boundaries between health professionals and patients, carers and the voluntary sector, ...

The NHS is urging around 1.3 million older people who have not yet had the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine to get jabbed, as health service chiefs warn it is “not just a winter illness”. Invites ...

The NHS in the South West is encouraging people to find out where their local sexual assault referral centre (SARC) is as part of Sexual Abuse and Sexual Violence Awareness Week (3 February – 9 ...

Health leaders in the North West are urging the public to take care and use the NHS wisely this weekend to support pressured urgent and emergency care and primary care services after a yellow cold ...