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 […]

Invitations are due to go out to hundreds of thousands of older people living in the South East of England, encouraging them to receive their respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine. The call to action comes as National Health Service chiefs warn that RSV is ‘not just a winter illness.’ Starting this week, invites will be […]

More patients than ever in the South East are reaping the benefits of virtual wards and Hospital at Home innovations, new data can reveal. Analysis by NHS England South East shows that, in 2024, there were over 85,000 admissions to virtual wards across the South East, an 18% increase from 2023. Over 175,000 patients have […]

The NHS is encouraging parents and carers in the South East to ensure that children receive their HPV vaccination. The vaccine helps protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) and as a result of people receiving the vaccine there has been a drop in the number of people getting cervical cancer and other conditions linked to HPV. […]

A woman who avoided her cervical screening for nearly 20 years went on to discover she had cancer after her GP practice offered her screening during an appointment for an unrelated matter. Penny, aged 50, avoided her cervical screening for almost two decades because she felt uncomfortable with the idea of the procedure. “I didn’t […]