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The NHS App is helping to reduce travel to GP practices with an average of 22,000 car journeys saved every month.
The University of Manchester’s GP Worklife Survey has revealed that a third of GPs are likely to quit direct patient care within five years.
The government is failing to grasp how serious a threat the current levels of Covid-19 illness pose to the NHS and to wider society, says BMA.
A call for evidence has opened to inform a new 10-year mental health plan to level up mental health across the country.
The number of GPs in England has fallen every year since the government first pledged to increase the family doctor workforce by 5,000.
The Society for Acute Medicine has warned that NHS pressures show no sign of abating and the system is becoming ‘increasingly compromised’.
Thousands of patients with Covid-19 who are most likely to be admitted to hospital are receiving a cutting-edge NHS antiviral treatment at home.
NHS leaders have stressed that the government risks abandoning the health service amid continued high infection rates.
New RCN analysis has highlighted an increasingly concerning financial outlook for nursing staff, even with proposed NHS pay rise in parts of the UK.
Newcastle Hospitals has achieved an international standard for its use of electronic patient record technology to drive transformational change.
The University of Cumbria and Imperial College London are working together to launch a new graduate entry medical school in Carlisle.
More than one million people have received a spring booster in just over two weeks since the latest phase of the vaccination programme kicked off.
New data shows a record number of annual appointments for those accessing cognitive behavioural therapy across England.
People are being encouraged to keep their waist measurement to less than half their height to reduce the risk of potential health problems.
Ben Goldacre has published the findings from his review to drive innovation and improve healthcare through safer use of health data.
The National Institute for Health Research has changed its name to become the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
The ‘enormous strain’ on hospitals is resulting in an increasing number having to divert ambulances to other sites.
The NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard shows that BME representation in senior positions in the NHS are at their highest ever level.
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