Emergency, urgent and critical care will be prioritised by the NHS this week as strike action by junior doctors across England will see major disruption of services, with thousands of patients facing postponements to routine care.
Millions more people will benefit from quicker care at home thanks to the boosted rollout of healthcare teams in the community, as part of the NHS plan to recover urgent and emergency care services.
The number of people waiting longest for routine care has fallen, despite hospitals having to contend with high levels of winter viruses and strike action, new figures show today.
TV presenters Tommy Walsh and Alan Titchmarsh have joined forces with the NHS to support a first-of-its-kind cancer awareness campaign.
The NHS has today (6 March) launched the NHS Parliamentary Awards 2023, which recognise staff who have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
Over a thousand volunteers have signed up to provide friendly phone calls for patients in England who are vulnerable, isolated or lonely, as the NHS Volunteer Responders programme reintroduces its Check in and Chat service.
NHS national medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis commented on the NHS Weekly Winter Operational Update for the week ending 26 February 2023
GPs and pharmacists have helped cut opioid prescriptions in England by 450,000 in under four years, latest data shows, as the NHS today unveils a new action plan to crack down on the overuse of potentially-addictive medicines.
The NHS has stopped thousands of people from getting type 2 diabetes, thanks to the world leading NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, new research shows.
Just one in five people aged 18-40 would visit their local pharmacy first for expert advice with a minor illness, new polling has found.
Artificial intelligence (AI) that predicts likely missed appointments and offers back-up bookings will be piloted by the NHS in a bid to maximise resources and potentially save billions.
NHS staff across England have reduced the number of patients waiting more than a year and a half by over a quarter in just one month, despite the busiest winter ever.
NHS Medical Director Professor Sir Stephen Powis commented on the NHS performance figures published today
The NHS workforce is more diverse than at any other point in its history, according to an annual report into race equality across the health service.
The burns and scalds page is viewed once every 16 seconds as the nation gets cooking.
Millions of people in England who have been sent a lifesaving home testing kit that can detect early signs of bowel cancer are being encouraged to use it and return it, as part of a new, first-of-a-kind NHS campaign.
NHS Medical Director Professor Sir Stephen Powis comments on today's industrial action by ambulance workers
This fact sheet sets out the Department of Health and Social Care's response to claims that the NHS has lost £7.5bn to fraud in the last six years. Statement from 17 February 2023 A government spokesperson said: "These claims are ...
NHS national medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis commented on weekly NHS winter pressures data published this morning showing the time lost to ambulance handover delays reduced by over a third week-on-week
Thousands of women are being urged to take up NHS breast screening appointments as new figures today reveal that while the highest number ever were screened last year, nearly four in 10 did not take up the potentially lifesaving offer
IT professionals across health and social care are being invited to have their say over future plans for the IT systems that underpin the NHS
A 19-month-old baby girl called Teddi has become the first child in the UK to receive a life-saving gene therapy treatment for the fatal disorder, metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD).
The NHS is urging the public to continue to call 999 in a life-threatening emergency and go to NHS 111 online for non-urgent needs as the health service experiences record levels of industrial action.
Patients received faster ambulance response times last month, despite new figures showing it was the busiest January on record for the most serious 999 call-outs, as winter pressures and industrial action continue to impact the NHS.
The Electronic Prescription Service is now the default method for prescribing and dispensing prescriptions in primary care in England, with almost one billion prescription items dispensed electronically in the last 12 months.
