According to NHS statistics, of the nearly 59,000 people waiting for specialist eye care as of December 2024, only two-thirds (66.8 per cent) have been waiting less than the 18-week target set by ...

Team up Derbyshire joins up existing services across general practice, community care, mental health care, adult social care and the voluntary and community sector to provide preventative and urgent ...

NHS eye care is an important primary care service. Contractual arrangements need not only to be in place but also effectively managed. Primary eye care gives rise to several commissioning and ...

NHS England has published Children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs and disability (SEND) oral and sight testing service specifications. PCC can help integrated care boards to ...

It’s a challenging environment in which to be a leader in the NHS. The need to lead collaboration between organisations, while facing staff reductions and managing constant change, is not easy. PCC’s ...

As of 1 April 2025, there will be a price increase in England for NHS dental treatment. The charges are set to rise by an average of 2.3 per cent, aligning with the forecast GDP deflator value. The ...

As GP partners approach retirement several critical factors need to be considered, particularly concerning their premises, including the implications this may have for the ownership or lease of their ...

NHS England's data for research and development programme has selected Prostate Progress, a prostate cancer Research project, as a driver project to help tackle the second leading cause of cancer ...

This research finds that people admitted to mental health trusts have better access to treatment for smoking than they did five years ago but are being let down by a failure to create smokefree care ...

Managing demand in general practice isn’t easy, there have been many initiatives to help, but what will work may vary from area to area. PCC’s associate Dr Steven Laitner suggests three streams of ...

NHS England (NHSE) published a plan to recover elective and cancer care over the three years up to March 2025. This plan included changes to how care is provided through three transformation ...

Tighter and tougher protections to protect children and communities from illicit tobacco and vapes have been unveiled as the Tobacco and Vapes Bill moves closer to creating a smokefree UK. A £10 ...