The NHS and Asda are teaming up to provide vital advice on millions of toothpaste tubes and mouthwash bottles encouraging people to contact their GP or dentist if they notice any potential symptoms of mouth cancer. From this month, Asda’s own brand of oral hygiene products will now feature NHS advice in over 500 Asda […]
Ed Garratt OBE, Chief Executive of NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (SNEE ICB), explains how health inequalities are front and centre of his dental commissioning strategy and how this has led to innovative new partnerships and contracts. When SNEE ICB took over the commissioning of NHS dental services in April 2023, […]
With therapies that can change a patients’ DNA, what once seemed like science fiction is now science fact. Since 2021, NHS England has commissioned three gene therapies for the treatment of specific rare genetic conditions, including onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma®) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), atidarsagene autotemcel (Libmeldy®) for metachromatic leukodystrophy and eladocagene exuparvovec (Upstaza®) for […]
How can we attract people to a rewarding healthcare career? How can we encourage people to explore the many training opportunities on offer such as healthcare apprenticeships and degrees across the nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions? For the next four weeks, we’re using the Solving Together platform to crowdsource ideas and solutions on […]
Based on data from the first year of the three-year NHS-Galleri trial, NHS England has decided that it will wait to see final results, expected in 2026, before considering whether an NHS rollout of the Galleri multi cancer early detection test (the Multi Cancer Blood Test Programme, MCBT) should go ahead. NHS England’s commercial agreement […]
Last Autumn, NHS England launched the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) to support mental health Trusts and providers improve experiences of care for racialised communities by embedding new practices to promote anti-racism. All mental health providers must implement the framework by March 2025 and it will become part of the CQC inspection process. […]
The evidence is clear that if we want to improve outcomes for local populations, we need to embrace leadership at all levels of an integrated care system (ICS). NHS England’s guidance on effective clinical and care professional leadership (CCPL) supports this and sets out five core principles describing what ‘good’ looks like. Since its publication […]
