A year after the launch of Pharmacy First, the scheme designed to speed up treatment for common conditions, this report sets out the results of a new poll of over 7,000 adults’ experience of using ...

A toolkit is available to help NHS colleagues signpost LGBTQ+ communities to vital services that protect and promote health. Covering PrEP and PEP medicines, cervical screening, HPV vaccination and ...

Local grassroots organisations provide mental health support to many people from marginalised communities. But they often face major obstacles to survival, like short-term funding and overly complex ...

Patients will receive better care thanks to an AI early warning system being developed to automatically identify safety concerns across the NHS. There have been growing concerns about safety in the ...

Primary care networks (PCNs) have been an important part of the primary care landscape since 2019. Since then, the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES) has been regularly updated and expanded in ...

NHS England publishes approved particulars relating to the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013, as amended. Following changes to the incident ...

NHS eye care is an important primary care service and commissioners need to deal with their contracting responsibilities appropriately. Prospective contractors can apply to hold a general ophthalmic ...

Food retailers and manufacturers will make the healthy choice the easy choice in a partnership between government and industry to tackle the obesity epidemic and ease pressure on the NHS. As part of ...

What infrastructure needs to be in place to ensure that AI can be used in the health and care sectors? Informed by conversations across health and social care with staff, suppliers, researchers and ...

The Royal College of GPs is calling for action to reduce air pollution levels after latest statistics reveal that the number of asthma attacks being treated in general practice have increased 45% in a ...

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has recommended that women and people with a cervix who never or rarely attend their routine cervical screening appointments can be offered an HPV ...

GPs could prescribe a wider range of treatments for chronic heart failure according to recommendations in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence draft guideline on diagnosis and ...