Patient care

NHS delivers millions of routine treatments in toughest summer

NHS staff have delivered millions more tests and treatments this summer while hospitals cared for thousands more patients with COVID, according to new figures released today. There were 3.9 million diagnostic tests and 2.6 million patients started consultant-led treatment over June and July, compared with 2.7 million tests and 1.6 million treatments over the same […]

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Patient groups welcome additional NHS support to cover cost of hospital travel

Please see our Transport support for patients attending in-centre haemodialysis page, for the most up-to-date information. Every patient who needs kidney dialysis will benefit from free transport to and from vital hospital appointments, the NHS in England announced today. New rules will also come into place to make it simpler for other patients to get free […]

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