Issued at 09:30am on Wednesday 27 December 2017 There is a 90% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 0800 on Wednesday 27 Dec and 0900 on Saturday 30 Dec in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. This weather could increase […]

As England sets about expanding the number of affordable houses being built, NHS England is today calling on the country’s top housing developers to apply the lessons from the first Healthy New Towns schemes by creating a national network that will put healthy living at the heart of future home building. In January 2018, NHS […]

Issued at 09:02am on Monday 25 December 2017 There is an 80% probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 1500 on Tuesday 26 December and 0900 on Saturday 30 December in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out more about […]

Thanks to improved NHS cancer care, over two thousand more people are this year able to enjoy Christmas with their families. Survival rates have never been higher and the gap between the best and the worst areas is also closing. Areas with historically lower survival rates are closing or have caught up with average survival, […]

Family and friends can play a key role in spotting signs of dementia when visiting older people this Christmas according to one of the country’s top experts. This year, Professor Alistair Burns, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older Peoples’ Mental Health, has written a Christmas list of a different kind – symptoms […]

Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, today thanked staff who are caring for patients over Christmas, and for all their work over a “pressurised year” for the NHS. On Christmas day alone an estimated 97,000 nurses and 53,000 nursing assistants will be working in hospitals whilst 12,000 midwives are expected to welcome around 1,400 […]

Information relating to the cost of GPs prescribing the wrong medicine, doses or sizes.

Easy read information, for the NHS England Learning Disability and Autism Forum event, which will take place on 8 February 2018.

Case study showing how Talking Therapies Service, Brent, reviewed their internal systems to see if things could be done differently to bring about positive changes.