Letter from NHS England providing information on specialist advice and the introduction of elective single points of access (SPoAs). The letter provides information and guidance to GPs and their ...

Experience of care week 2026 takes place week commencing 27 April. This annual, week-long celebration highlights the importance of improving patient, family, and staff experiences within health and ...

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 ...

This guidance sets out the annual assessment process NHS England will follow to assess integrated care board (ICB) performance in the 2025/26 financial year and should be read in conjunction with the ...

This guidance provides additional information on recording of seasonal vaccination events and payments including working in collaborative arrangements. Sign up to receive our daily news alerts ...

This report finds that one in three people aged 75 and over can only get to see their doctor if they book digitally, and the same proportion feel they are cut off from care. With nearly 90% of older ...

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 ...

The role of the Yorkshire & Humber Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network (Y&H PCC ODN) is to coordinate patient pathways between providers that care for critically unwell children ...

The ODN does not own or manage the formularies and therefore cannot accept responsibility for any out-of-date contents. Clinicians must accept individual responsibility for using this information and ...

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 ...

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 ...