We have set out steps to rapidly boost capacity and resilience for the busy winter period.
Preparation includes increasing bed availability, recruiting more call handlers and working closely with social care services to ensure people receive the care and support they need to leave hospital safely and stay well in their homes and communities.
Patients with long-lasting symptoms from COVID will have access to more convenient tests and checks closer to home, under new NHS measures for long COVID.
Specialist clinics, dedicated to long COVID, will now be able to send people for tests at local one stop shops and mobile clinics.
Backed by an additional £90 million investment, the updated long COVID plan includes ambitions for all patients to have an initial assessment within six weeks to ensure they are diagnosed and treated quickly.
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Record numbers of people have come forward for bowel cancer checks thanks to lifesaving awareness raising by Dame Deborah James, the NHS said today. Between the months of May and July, referrals for suspected lower gastro-intestinal cancers reached record levels, with over 170,500 people referred for checks during that period – up over 30,000 compared […]
