Hundreds of women with aggressive cervical cancer are to be offered a new immunotherapy on the NHS, which could help more women survive and stay cancer-free in the long-term. Pembrolizumab – which experts describe as being able to ‘take the handbrake off the body’s immune system’ to target cancer – will now offer a new […]
NHS England initiative sees Consultant Surgeons’ data published for 2014 – new specialities and indicators added on patient-friendly NHS Choices website The NHS’s world-leading transparency drive takes another step forward today as the latest annual results for individual consultant surgeons are published (from 6am on Wednesday 19 November). This year the NHS is bringing together […]
NHS England will today (Friday 28 June) begin the staged publication of mortality rates for individual hospital consultants in ten specialties, a major breakthrough in NHS transparency. It is leading a drive to give patients more information about their treatment, helping the NHS drive up and maintain the quality of care. The data – covering […]