People with persistent heartburn or acid reflux will be offered an innovative ‘sponge on a string’ test in high-street pharmacies for the first time, as part of a new NHS pilot to help prevent oesophageal cancer. NHS England has today announced that dozens of pharmacies in England will offer new ‘heartburn health checks’ to test for Barrett’s oesophagus, […]

GP practices across England can now access new technology with the introduction of the first new core IT system for 25 years. As part of reforms to increase competition and innovation in the market, NHS England has approved the first of a new generation of electronic patient record systems for GPs – with more suppliers […]

One in eight senior managers in the NHS are from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds, according to new figures published today. The 2024 NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) report showed that 12.7% of staff at very senior manager level are from these backgrounds – up from one in nine (11.2%) in 2023. Overall, this marks […]

Visits to the heat exhaustion advice on the NHS website have increased by 198 pre cent as temperatures rise across England.  There have been 31,524 visits to the heat exhaustion and heatstroke web page in the 48 hours since a heat-health alert was introduced across most of England at midday on Wednesday, compared to 10,578 visits […]

An independent taskforce set up to tackle challenges in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) care has published its interim report and recommendations today (Friday 20 June 2025). The report describes that the rates of recognised ADHD in England are lower than the expected prevalence and stresses the need for timely access to needs-based support. To […]

Hundreds of GP practices will comb patient records to offer urgent tests to people most at risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease. GP teams will scour online patients records to identify people over 60 who have the key early warning signs of pancreatic cancer including being recently diagnosed with […]

NHS staff involved in the response to the Southport knife attack are among those being recognised in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours list, released today (Friday 13 June). Sir Jim Mackey, Chief Executive at NHS England, said the awards highlight the “incredible dedication and commitment” of those who responded to the attack in July 2024. Paul […]

The NHS in England will be the first health system in the world to roll-out a ‘trojan horse’ targeted therapy for blood cancer patients which could halt the disease’s progression by nearly three times as long as existing treatments.  Around 1,500 patients a year with multiple myeloma – an incurable cancer of the bone marrow […]

The NHS waiting list has fallen to its lowest level in two years, the first April drop since 2008*, as health chiefs hailed staff for continuing to tackle demand and drive progress for patients. New data published today shows that the NHS waiting list has fallen to 7.39 million, down from 7.42 million – the first time […]

Millions of patients will benefit from cutting-edge NHS robotic surgery over the next decade as part of radical plans to cut waiting times. Half a million operations will be supported by the trailblazing approach every year by 2035, up from 70,000 in 2023/24, according to NHS projections. 9 in 10 of all keyhole surgeries, such […]