Imagine how nerve-racking it is to be told your life expectancy could be six months to one year. I was 33. Even now, words can’t describe how I felt when I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of ...

The NHS is launching a search for nearly 150,000 volunteers to take part in a series of research trials that could transform cancer treatment. Three cancer projects have been selected as part of the ...

An estimated 5.6 million people in the UK are living with diabetes and rates are rising. Recent figures showed that 549,000 more people have been identified over the past year as being at risk of ...

Staff working in A&E and ambulance services experienced more pressure than any October on record, new figures show today, as the NHS heads into winter busier than ever before. Despite the continued ...

Following our letter on 25 April regarding Improving working lives, we are writing to give you an update on the StatMand programme and an outline of what we are currently doing, and what action we ...

Sustainability is fundamental to achieving the NHS’s long-term strategy to deliver high-quality healthcare while minimising its environmental impact and promoting social responsibility. We want to ...

The NHS achieves extraordinary things for patients, but safety and health and wellbeing matter just as much for our people. If we don’t look after ourselves, and each other, we cannot deliver safe, ...

Thank you, Sathnam. It’s great to be here with you again. A lot has changed since last year. Resident doctors strikes resolved. Hard to envision then but bringing huge benefits for patients now. A new ...

The NHS is set to revolutionise access to cancer screening for women in a major drive to boost uptake and save thousands of lives, the head of the NHS has announced. From next month, the NHS will ...

The NHS is one of the largest employers in the world and delivers care and treatment to more than a million people every 24 hours. It impacts everyone’s lives and employs over 1.3 million people ...

NHS England developed the Fit and proper person test (FPPT) framework, in response to the recommendations made by Tom Kark KC in his 2019 review of the FPPT (the Kark Review). The framework is ...

The Federated Data Platform (NHS FDP) began roll-out to NHS trusts in April 2024, following a pilot phase which began in 2022. The NHS FDP is a software platform that enables NHS organisations to ...