The NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Programme has vaccinated more than two million of the most at-risk people in England with a spring covid jab since the programme launched last month. As of Thursday 4 May, the NHS has vaccinated 2.04 million people during this booster campaign. More than 153,000 care home residents – representing over half […]

More than 500,000 repeat prescriptions are now booked through the NHS App every week. New figures released by NHS England show that since the NHS App’s launch in December 2018, more than 42 million repeat prescriptions have been ordered through the app. Last month alone, the NHS App enabled 2.4 million repeat prescriptions to be […]

Statistics on last week’s nurses strike are here available on the NHS England website: NHS England » Potential industrial action in the NHS In summary, over 28 hours there were 7,600 cancellations in acute care. At the peak of the action, there were 5034 staff not at work due to industrial action. There were however a […]

Patients and the public are being urged to use NHS services wisely as some nurses walk out across the country this evening. Royal College of Nursing members in more than 100 NHS organisations will take strike action from 8pm tonight until midnight at the end of Monday in the widest nursing strike to face the […]

The NHS will prioritise urgent and emergency care again this bank holiday weekend, and is urging the public to use services wisely as industrial action enters its sixth month. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced strike action, starting on Sunday at 8pm and finishing on Monday at midnight. Following the recent junior doctors […]

An NHS search tool aimed at helping people find local sexual health services attracts a third more visits following a bank holiday, latest figures show.  Analysis carried out by NHS England, which runs the NHS website, found page visits to the tool increased to an average of 7,414 in the 24 hours following the summer […]

The NHS Covid-19 Vaccination Programme has vaccinated more than 150,000 older adult care home residents in England in just three weeks since the campaign began – over half of all those eligible. Roving teams of NHS staff have visited more than 6,000 care homes – almost three in five – to offer the spring jabs […]

Hospitals are being asked to work towards a 10-day turnaround when delivering diagnostic test results to patients who have received an urgent referral for suspected cancer, as part of new plans to see and treat people for cancer as early as possible. This means hundreds of patients waiting to have cancer ruled out or diagnosed […]

Responding to the Gambling White Paper, NHS Mental Health Director, Claire Murdoch said: “The NHS has long called for action to tackle gambling addiction which destroys people’s lives – I have personally heard of countless examples of people bereaved by gambling addiction or who have contemplated suicide – so I am delighted that the Government […]

Hundreds more people with cancer are now set to receive personalised CAR-T therapies after NHS England struck new deals to expand access to the potentially life-saving treatments. The cutting-edge immunotherapies, which use a patient’s own immune cells to create a tailored treatment, will immediately be made available through the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) for people […]