NHS England is responsible for determining allocations of financial resources to integrated care boards (ICBs) from April 2022. Total annual budgets given to ICBs cover the majority of NHS spending. The allocations process uses a statistical formula to make geographic distribution fair and objective, so that it more clearly reflects local healthcare need and helps […]

Ambulance waits outside A&E reduced despite thousands more people being taken to hospital last week and continued pressures across the NHS, new figures show today. The weekly winter data, published today, shows ambulances transported 77,937 patients to A&Es across the country last week, up from 72,009 the week before. Despite the increase in patients, fewer […]

Hospitals remain under significant pressure with bed occupancy at the second highest level recorded this winter last week, new figures show today. More than 19 in 20 beds were occupied across adult general and acute hospital wards (95.7%) in the week ending 15 January, according to the weekly statistics. Over 14,000 beds were taken up […]

The NHS is asking patients to seek urgent care if they need it during industrial action this week and continue to attend appointments as planned unless contacted to rearrange. Patients should use services wisely by going to NHS 111 online as the first port of call for health needs and continuing to call 999 in a […]

More than 20 million people in England have had their flu jabs as the number of patients in critical care with the virus hits its highest yet this winter, new NHS figures show today. Around four in five people aged 65 and over, as well as more than three in five of those aged 50 […]

The NHS is asking patients to seek emergency care if they need to during industrial action and take simple steps to help ensure care is available to patients who need it most. This includes using services wisely by going to NHS 111 online as the first port of call for health needs and continuing to […]

Every trust, and integrated care board (ICB) (on behalf of integrated care system (ICSs)) will have access to their own instance of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), which they will have complete control over. It will make it easier for them to collaborate, and coordinate and plan care for patients. The NHS Federated Data […]

NHS patients from around England have joined health chiefs in pleading with the public to get their flu vaccines after being hospitalised with the virus. It comes as the latest data shows there were 5,500 patients in hospital with flu last week and more than 9,000 patients with COVID. A woman from Buckinghamshire has said […]

Flu cases in hospital jumped up by almost a half (47%) last week, as staff in NHS 111 answered a near record number of calls. New figures for the week leading up to New Year’s Day, showed there were 5,105 patients with flu in general and acute hospital beds, up from 3,479 the previous week. […]

The increasing pressure on the NHS makes it clear we need to do things differently to sustain our health service for the future. Whilst tackling the obvious pressures of today, a vast proportion of the NHS and partners are still working to prevent a ‘too big list’ of tomorrow’s problems. An increasing body of international […]