Commenting on the latest round of industrial action, NHS National Medical Director Professor Sir Stephen Powis said: “As the longest strike in the history of the NHS begins during one of the busiest and most challenging weeks of the year – the health service is experiencing the winter pressures of flu and Covid combined with […]
Information access request statistics Time period Valid FOI requests received Resolved within 20 working days Total requests outstanding * Overall compliance Quarter 2 2023 (July, August, September) 1044 811 249 76.68% * Please note that requests outstanding represents a snapshot of the position as at the day of reporting for each month. Information access request […]
On this page you can find the list of integrated care system (ICS) leaders and follow links to each ICS website. In some cases, one website serves both the local integrated care board (ICB) and integrated care partnership (ICP). On each ICB website, you can find their governance handbook, which describes how the ICB makes […]
Urinal mats in public places in England will begin to carry blood in pee cancer warnings for men, as part of a major new NHS earlier diagnosis drive. The NHS and P-Wave, a leading urinal products brand, are working together to put the message “Blood in your pee? Contact your GP practice” on urinal mats […]
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan outlines how we can put the NHS on a sustainable future footing by training, retaining and reforming the workforce to deliver multi-disciplinary teams serving patients across the NHS. This means recruiting and training more doctors, nurses, allied health and other professionals and ensuring every team member can contribute their […]
Hundreds of thousands of NHS patients who have been waiting the longest for treatment will be offered the opportunity to travel to a different hospital, if it means they could be seen sooner. From today, any patient who has been waiting longer than 40 weeks and does not have an appointment within the next eight […]
A varied of the key resources available to health and wellbeing guardians and the organisations who support them, is outlined below. As health and wellbeing guardians will vary within each healthcare organisation and context, these resources should be considered flexibly and interpreted and adapted to meet local need. Guidance for those supporting health and wellbeing […]
Why? Importance of health and wellbeing guardians Health and wellbeing guardians are a key enabler in helping to create an organisational culture where empowering the health and wellbeing of our NHS people is routine and a priority consideration across all organisational activities and decisions. The NHS people plan commits to looking after all our diverse […]
Dr Ollie Hart, GP, Clinical Director of Heeley Plus Primary Care Network and Director of Peak Health Coaching, talks about how incorporating health coaching approaches into his consultations helped build self-management capabilities for his patients.Elaine Cross shares her experience of how this approach helped her explore a referral to a health and wellbeing coach, where […]
More than one million people (1,052,083) have been invited for a lung cancer check, as part of the biggest programme to improve early lung cancer diagnosis in health service history. The NHS has invited former and current smokers to attend a consultation in convenient locations such as football stadiums, shopping car parks and town centres […]