Budding entrepreneurs still have time to apply for a ground-breaking programme that is helping to bring clinical innovations into the NHS to improve patient care. The latest round of NHS England’s Clinical Entrepreneur programme is still open for applications and has now expanded to welcome applications from every type of clinician in the NHS including […]

The NHS is teaming up with councils to improve health through better housing through home MOTs, quick homes grants, falls help lines, stair lifts and heating systems among others. A King’s Fund and National Housing Federation Report out now on housing and health says the cost of poor housing to the NHS is £1.4 billion per […]

The head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, told a gathering of ambulance service top brass that he wanted to see the authorities take the toughest possible action against members of the public who subject frontline ambulance crews and control room staff to violent acts or abuse while on duty. Speaking yesterday (21 March) at the […]

A new GP contract, agreed by NHS England, the Government and the British Medical Association’s General Practitioners Committee, will take effect from 01 April 2018. It will see an investment of £256.3 million going into the contract for 2018/19, a 3.4% increase overall. This includes £60 million to be paid to GP practices to help […]

Issued at 8.48am on Tuesday 20 March 2018 Temperatures/weather conditions are not expected to exceed Cold Weather Alert threshold criteria in any region from 20 March 9.00am until further notice. More details about this weather alert are available on the Met Office website.

NHS England has today announced plans to recruit and deploy hundreds of pharmacists into care homes to help reduce overmedication and cut unnecessary hospital stays. Around 180,000 people living in nursing or residential homes will have their prescriptions and medicines reviewed by the new pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Elderly care home residents often have one […]

Ethel Armstrong, 87, who was a nurse cadet on the first day of the NHS in 1948, today received an MBE from HRH The Prince of Wales. Ethel was recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours for her seven decades of dedicated service to the NHS workforce and for her involvement in the NHS retirement […]

Senior leaders representing staff and patients have pledged their support for a one-off competition to celebrate the contribution of health and care workers during the NHS’s 70th birthday year. The NHS70 Parliamentary Awards were launched last month, and will see English MPs put forward individuals and teams serving their constituencies for national recognition. As the window […]

Issued at 8.27am on Tuesday 15 March 2018 There is a 90 per cent probability of severe cold weather and locally heavy snow between 9.00pm on Friday 16 March and 9.00am on Tuesday 20 March in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. […]

Most community pharmacies in England are now providing improved asthma and dementia care, NHS England figures show. Thousands of community pharmacists took up incentives to offer new patient services, such as providing asthma checks and undertaking training to become more dementia aware, as part of a programme to improve care. The uptake figures from NHS […]