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. This supports a Medium Term Planning Framework target.

Healthwatch has published a report The public’s perspective: the state of health and social care. The report aims to show what care feels like for the people using it, and make recommendations to fix ...

World Oral Health Day is on 20 March and marks the final year of the Happy Mouth campaign theme. The campaign celebrates every life — young and old — because feeling your best starts with a healthy ...

Women, babies, and families will receive safer and higher-quality NHS care through a new Maternity and Neonatal taskforce. The government has finalised the membership of the taskforce, which will ...

The Department for Education are raising awareness among GP teams about the long-term impacts experienced by those affected by historic forced adoption practices – mothers separated from their babies ...

NHS England has published resources including an animation on suicide prevention to support staff on how to recognise signs of suicidal distress in themselves and others, and the ways in which they ...

This report highlights the socioeconomic inequalities in head and neck cancer across the UK, with those from the poorest areas disproportionately affected. According to the analysis, people in the ...

This guidance document advises GPs against shared care agreements with unregulated providers in relation to hormone medication to children and young people under 18 as a response to gender ...

Almost 1 in 7 NHS staff (14.47%) were physically attacked by a patient or the public last year – the highest rate for 3 years – according to the latest NHS staff survey. A record percentage of staff a ...

The NHS has faced its busiest winter on record while bringing waiting lists to their lowest for almost 3 years. Figures show the number people attending A&E between November and February topped 9 ...