What are national programmes of care? The specialised services commissioned by NHS England have been grouped into six national programmes of care (NPoC). Each has an NPoC that coordinates work across ...

Hundreds of thousands of patients will be able to get directly referred and booked in for tests, checks and scans by their GP for a range of conditions as part of a radical new plan set to be launched ...

New NHS data covering the Christmas and New Year period shows flu cases have continued to skyrocket, with over 5,000 patients hospitalised with the virus at the end of last week. Last week (w/e 29 Dec ...

Following the amber cold weather alert, issued today by the UKHSA, Dr Justin Varney-Bennett, Regional Director of Public Health for NHS England – South West, said: “As we head into a very cold spell ...

ELFT (East London NHS Foundation Trust) strives to improve the quality of life of all we serve. We work hand in hand with our service users, staff, Governors, communities and partners to continue to ...

We are pleased to share with you, patient stories of hospital eye services, gathered as part of the EyesWise 100 Voices Campaign. EyesWise is an NHS project that aims to save sight and improve lives.

The NHS Long Term Plan pledges radical change for people needing planned care. Too often people are travelling for hours to a ...

Demand for elective care services is continuing to grow. In 2018, more than 1.7 million patients were referred for planned consultant led treatment each month. Between 2005/6 and 2017/18 total ...

The Elective Care Transformation Programme developed a specification for clinical peer review which involves GPs reviewing each other’s new referrals to provide constructive feedback to the referring ...

Here are the handbooks setting out best practice and ‘how-to’ solutions for each of the 14 high-volume elective care specialties that we have supported to transform to ensure patients see the right ...

The proportion of patients being diagnosed with cancer at an early stage in England has risen to its highest ever level, according to new NHS analysis.  Latest data on 13 of the most common cancers, ...