Nurses, doctors and surgeons are among dozens of NHS staff on the 2024 New Year Honour list, released today (Friday 29 December).   The head of the NHS, Amanda Pritchard, praised the efforts of those recognised in what has been another challenging year for the health service.    This year in the NHS’s 75th year, staff have dealt with […]

Thousands of people were in hospital with winter viruses last week, including over 940 patients with flu, as staff contended with significant winter pressure on top of the impact of industrial action. The latest figures for the week to Christmas Eve show there were an average of 942 patients with flu in hospital each day […]

The number of visits to the NHS website’s running programme is expected to quadruple in the first week of January as people attempt to achieve their new year’s resolutions. Figures from NHS England, which runs the NHS website, show that visits to the Get running with Couch to 5K page received 51,900 visits in the first week […]

Data on the recent industrial action by junior doctors and hospital dental trainees can be found on the NHS England website here: NHS England » Industrial action in the NHS. Since strikes began, the cumulative total of acute inpatient and outpatient appointments rescheduled is now 1,219,422. Junior doctors and hospital dental trainees began their strike […]

The NHS App has twice as many users as Netflix’s 16.7 million subscribers with three quarters of adults in England now signed up, new figures show today. As the app marks its fifth birthday, new data shows it has 33.6 million registered users, with monthly traffic to the app rising by more than half in […]

Tens of thousands of patients at risk of kidney disease will be able to get tested from the comfort of their own homes as part of a £30 million tech and AI innovation fund this winter. The Healthy.io early detection device will initially be sent to 30,000 patients who are considered most at risk for […]

The NHS will roll out a new centralised approach to buying energy which could help slash its energy bill nationally by up to £100 million a year, as part of a major drive to find further efficiencies and improve care. From January, the NHS will use its buying power to purchase energy nationally, driving down […]

The head of the NHS today thanked staff and volunteers working over Christmas to deliver care for millions of patients, and reflected on their achievements in 2023 during an “unprecedented year” of demand and industrial action. In a personal video message, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard thanked staff for their continued hard work during “what […]

England’s top mental health nurse is urging people to look out for signs of dementia among family and friends over Christmas, as NHS diagnosis rates are at a three year high. Issues that may have been hidden can come to the surface or be easier to spot when families or friends across the country get […]

The number of people in hospital with flu has increased by almost two thirds in a week, new NHS figures show today. Despite intensified efforts from hardworking staff to prepare for winter pressures, the latest weekly update shows thousands of hospital beds are taken up by patients with flu and other viruses. Ahead of this […]