Introduction The NHS in England is generally expected to manage emergency response within its own capabilities. However, in ...

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Dear colleagues, Very senior managers pay award for 2025/26 I write to advise you formally of the 2025/26 annual pay increase for very senior managers (VSMs). On 22 May 2025, the Secretary of State ...

Hundreds of GP practices will comb patient records to offer urgent tests to people most at risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease. GP teams will scour online patients ...

The NHS waiting list has fallen to its lowest level in two years, the first April drop since 2008*, as health chiefs hailed staff for continuing to tackle demand and drive progress for patients. New ...

Introduction 1. The National Health Service Act 2006 (as amended by the Health Service and Care Act 2022) established integrated care boards (ICBs). ICBs are statutory organisations that commission ...

The NHS in England will be the first health system in the world to roll-out a ‘trojan horse’ targeted therapy for blood cancer patients which could halt the disease’s progression by nearly three times ...

That’s what sits at the heart of the new Urgent and emergency care plan. Aligned to the 2025/26 planning guidance, the plan ...

Millions of patients will benefit from cutting-edge NHS robotic surgery over the next decade as part of radical plans to cut waiting times. Half a million operations will be supported by the ...

Executive summary This briefing draws on official statistics published here. Urgent and emergency care Urgent and emergency ...

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust - Queens Hospital Specialty/programme group: Paediatrics Review type: learner educator meeting Regional office: Midlands Date of review: 1 ...

This plan sets out how we’ll resuscitate urgent and emergency care, with a focus on getting patients out of corridors, keeping more ambulances on the road, and enable those ready to leave hospital to ...