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 ...

Thousands of lives could be saved thanks to the roll-out of an improved anti-smoking pill on the NHS in England, the head of the health service will announce today. Varenicline has been shown to work ...

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 ...

More than 5,000 people in England have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier thanks to an innovative NHS initiative, which ...

In October 2020, the NHS became the world’s first health service to commit to reaching carbon net zero, in response to the profound and growing threat to health posed by climate change. The ...

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 ...

This page provides an overview of resources and tools developed by NHS England and other partners with the aim to improve cardiac arrest survival outcomes. It has been designed to help all ...

Tens of thousands of people who have a stroke could be diagnosed and treated sooner as new data found that the average time between onset of first symptoms and a 999 call being made was nearly an hour ...

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 ...

Obesity levels among children starting their first year of school have increased to almost one in ten, according to new NHS figures published today. The National Child Measurement Programme, which ...

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 ...