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The NHS will roll out mental health employment specialists across the country, providing £10 million to expand access over the next two years.
NHS Digital has opened bidding for new funding to enable better sharing of social care and clinical information and data.
Over half of acute hospital trusts have switched off paper referrals and are now processing GP referrals for outpatient appointments digitally.
The government and the NHS must improve how they communicate reforms to the public, says committee in report on integrated care.
Balvinder Heran has appointed Buckinghamshire's first ICT director with responsibility across an NHS trust, CCG and county council.
The Royal College of Nursing has published new guidance for registered nurses around the importance of regular checks or cervical cancer.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is to announce new measures to improve patient safety and protect doctors and nurses when mistakes are made.
Record numbers of patients with serious mental health issues are enduring ‘damage and distress’ as a result of being sent to out-of-area beds.
The Welsh Government has said that patients need to seek more care in their communities and that hospital visits should be only when ‘essential’.
Union members working for the NHS in England have voted overwhelmingly to accept a three year pay deal.
Nadhim Zahawi has urged the NHS and councils yet to implement a child protection information sharing system to do so as a matter of urgency.
Hospitals, GPs, community services and social care need to work together more effectively to help reduce emergency admissions.
A new report has argued that new models of general practice could be imperative in realising the potential of wider NHS changes in England.
Jeremy Hunt has revealed that the NHS will receive a ‘significant increase’ in its budget as part of the service's 70th birthday.
NHS England has struck a deal with MSD to make the lung cancer drug pembrolizumab available for routine use on the NHS.
New analysis has revealed a worrying picture for the future of NHS recruitment, warning that thousands of new staff will have to be recruited in the next 10 years.
A joint letter has reiterated that the NHS needs a real terms funding increase of around four per cent a year to prevent deterioration in care.
The RCGP has urged Sajid Javid to act rapidly in overhauling immigration rules to allow appropriately-trained doctors to work as GPs in the NHS.
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