Over the last year, one million people with atrial fibrillation (AF) – a condition that causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heartbeat – have been prescribed anticoagulant medication that ...

The NHS in England is facing an uphill battle with demand for gambling addiction help more than doubling since last year. Referrals have gone up almost 130%, with almost 2,000 people referred to ...

The government has published the General Ophthalmic Services Contracts (Payments for sight-testing services provided in a special educational setting) Directions 2024. Sign up to receive our daily ...

NHS England’s new plan sets out how the NHS will reform elective care services and meet the 18 week referral to treatment standard by March 2029. Under this plan elective care will be increasingly ...

NHS eye care is an important primary care service. Commissioners must make the contractual arrangements so services can be made available to patients and appropriately manage them. This virtual ...

New asthma clinical guidelines have been published. These include significant changes in inhaler prescribing practices, for example the move away from SABA-only prescribing towards alternative regimes ...

This guidance provides actionable steps for tackling health inequity within health care delivery, emphasising the role that clinicians and clinical leaders can play. It argues that tackling these ...

NHS England has published a letter to trusts, integrated care boards (ICBs) and primary care network leads setting out immediate steps for ICBs and acute trusts to: name an existing director who will ...

This review explains how the twin crises of health and housing can be tackled together, by promoting health equity. It lays out a way forward to enable the property sector and national and local ...

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 new plan. People with conditions such as breathlessness, ...

When you are tasked with producing a strategy for your organisation, where do you start? In simplest terms, a strategy is your story. It will have a beginning, a middle and an end. • How are you going ...

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, ...