GP premises are essential to the delivery of NHS primary medical services. Commissioners have the responsibility to make the necessary reimbursements for premises costs to GP contractors, but there ...

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) services provide intravenous antimicrobial treatment outside hospitals, administered by healthcare professionals or patients/carers. This guidance ...

Almost 600,000 beds were taken up by patients with COVID, flu, RSV or norovirus this winter (594,937 from 25 November 2024 – 30 March 2025), as NHS services experienced a ‘quad-demic’ of viruses. The ...

This review was commissioned by NHS England in October 2022. The report looks at the full economic costs of delivering NHS pharmaceutical services, and how these costs vary across and within: ...

This briefing will help NHS trusts to understand upcoming reforms, consider improvements to patient communications, and optimise their use of available postal services.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have published new advice to help GP practices embed equality considerations in the NHS services they provide, specifically around guarding against the ...

Changes to the Health Protection Notification Regulations from 6 April will expand the list of infections that registered medical professionals need to notify the UK Health Security Agency of, through ...

At a time when the focus is on developing the new 10-year plan and on the stated three shifts. Are integrated care boards working with patients and the public? The people who, according to the NHS ...

While change has been a constant in the NHS for some time, the forthcoming 10-year plan, with the drive to care for people as close to home as possible and improve people’s health, at the same time as ...