More than 1.2 million eligible individuals in the South East can now book their spring COVID-19 vaccination as the NHS national booking system opens today (Tuesday 25 March). People can now schedule appointments from Tuesday, 1 April. Thousands of appointments will be available daily across the South East, primarily at pharmacies and GP practices as […]

Thousands more patients across the South East are accessing crucial diagnostic tests every week thanks to the work of innovative Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) across the region. There are currently 30 CDCs across the South East, with more expected to open their doors to patients in the coming months. Since the programme began in 2021/22, […]

Ahead of International Women’s Day, NHS England South East’s Chief  Nurse Andrea Lewis has praised the improvements made to Royal Berkshire’s Hysteroscopy outpatients service, celebrating the service led by women, for women. The nursing-led team at Royal Berkshire Hospital is working to transform patient care and improve efficiency in the South East, meaning more women […]

Fewer staff are leaving the NHS in the South East than in previous years with retention schemes helping to cut the numbers leaving the health service to one of its lowest levels in over a decade. In the South East, 10.6% of workers left the NHS in the 12 months up to September 2024, compared […]

Patients across the region are seeing the benefits of the NHS in the South East consistently exceeding the national target for delivering emergency care for patients in the community, NHS data shows. The national target for Urgent Community Response teams (UCRs) is to reach at least 70% of patients referred to them within two hours, […]

Over the summer 2024, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care was asked to ‘call in’ our decision on where the future Principal Treatment Centre for children with cancer living in south London and much of south east England will be. ‘Calling in’ a decision means the Secretary of State decides to take […]

Over 100 frontline NHS staff will be joined by NHS England directors in Reading today (25 Feb 2025) to have their say on what they want to see from the government’s 10 Year Health Plan. It is one of many events across the country where frontline NHS staff across the breadth of the NHS workforce […]

Women in the South East are stepping up for breast cancer screening at a higher rate than any other region in the country. New NHS England data shows that 766,046 women aged 53 to 71 were screened for breast cancer as of 31 March 2024, compared to 723,160 women the previous year – an increase of nearly […]

In a powerful testament to the life-saving potential of breast screening, a woman who was diagnosed with breast cancer despite having no symptoms is urging others to take up the offer of free NHS breast screening when invited. Theresa Carter’s plea comes as NHS England has today (17/2) launched its first-ever awareness campaign to highlight […]

As Lord Alan Sugar gets set to fire a third wannabe new-recruit in BBC1’s The Apprentice, the NHS in the South East is encouraging people to join their programme and become ‘an apprentice that matters’, as part of National Apprenticeship Week. With more than 2,600 apprenticeships starting in the region last year, it’s less a […]