The 2026/27 GP Contract includes a requirement that patients identified by the practice as clinically urgent must be dealt with on the same day. For integrated care boards (ICBs), this supports a ...

More than 10,000 calls have been made to Martha’s Rule helplines in the first 16 months of the NHS scheme, saving lives and helping thousands of patients benefit from changes to their care.

The NHS has faced its busiest winter on record while bringing waiting lists to their lowest for almost 3 years. New figures out today show the number people attending A&E between November and February ...

NHS England carried out its 2025 staff survey between 23 September and 28 November 2025. We published the results on 11 March 2026, the same day the wider NHS received theirs. IQVIA delivered the ...

Individuals who are sourcing unregulated medicines and who are seen by the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service will be advised to discontinue the medicine. The NHS Children and Young People ...

We are writing to notify you that NHS England has taken the decision that all NHS commissioners should start identifying alternative placements for their patients receiving inpatient services at the ...

Corridor care definition. Corridor care is a significant patient safety and experience issue; the NHS is committed to reducing this activity in hospitals across England in both em ...

Friends and Family Test (FFT) gives patients the opportunity to submit feedback to providers of NHS funded care or treatment, using a simple question which asks how likely, on a scale ranging from ...

Ophthalmology is the highest volume outpatient specialty within the NHS and the medicines used for medical retinal vascular conditions account for some of the highest cost and volume treatments used ...

We all know that corridor care is unacceptable; it creates an exceptionally poor experience for patients – particularly older patients – and their loved ones, generates low morale for our staff, and ...

Clinical policy for prescribing of masculinising and feminising hormones for children and adolescents who have gender incongruence or dysphoria ...

The focus of this report is on the Children and Young People’s Patient Experience Survey 2024, which captured feedback from 25,821 children and young people and their parents and carers. The sampled ...