The head of the NHS has praised the hard work of staff for rolling out 5,000 additional permanent, staffed beds this winter – during a period of industrial action and significant pressure. New figures published today show last week, hospitals across the country had an average of 99,750 core beds in place each day – […]

“Our vision is that the power of genomics in predicting, preventing and diagnosing disease, and targeting treatment is accessible to all as part of routine care in the NHS.” This is the first line from the Accelerating Genomic Medicine in the NHS strategy published at the inaugural NHS Genomics Healthcare Summit in late 2022. Just […]

Type 1 diabetes is going through something of a global revolution – especially with the advancement of technology in aiding self-management. In recent years, the NHS has made big strides in giving access to new technology to the vast majority of people living with type 1 diabetes. Alongside access to technology, it’s vital that people […]

In collaboration with the Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services as Partners in Care and Health, we have published this letter which identifies five key actions that will have the biggest impact on supporting people with a learning disability and autistic people to leave mental health hospital.

Nearly 10,000 discharges to the community have been achieved since 2015. The letter asks colleagues working in integrated care systems across health and social care to make a concerted effort to continue to help people with a learning disability and autistic people leave hospital when they no longer need hospital care.

This guidance supports ICSs and service providers to improve the physical health care of adults living with severe mental illness (SMI), through improved physical health checks and supported follow-up interventions.

The following 8 case studies support our main guidance: Improving the physical health of people living with severe mental illness.

The guidance supports ICSs and service providers to improve the physical health care of adults living with severe mental illness (SMI), through improved physical health checks and supported follow-up interventions.

Four million more GP appointments a month are being delivered for patients compared to the same month before the pandemic, as part of the NHS primary care access recovery plan. New NHS data published today shows more than 31.4 million appointments (excluding vaccinations) were delivered by GP practices in November 2023, making it the busiest […]

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 […]

This guidance advises general practice, providers of respiratory diagnostics, pathology laboratories and integrated care boards on the provision of GP direct access pathways for adult patients with symptoms indicative of chronic respiratory diseases (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and heart failure.