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Doctors and patient groups are warning that increasing numbers of patients needing care and a shortage of GPs is threatening to overwhelm the system.
Updated standards aim to capture what matters clinically to patients, end hidden waits and reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus spreading.
New research by the Guardian has shown that at leats 77,000 hospital staff in England caught coronavirus during the pandemic.
People aged 30 and 31 in England are being invited to book to have their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
The Liverpool area has become the first in the UK to have all NHS trusts signed up to a service that enables them to hear from patients.
The Foundation Programme curriculum, which underpins the training of newly graduated doctors, relaunches for the first time in five years this summer.
NHS trust leaders have expressed their concern about how long children and young people are currently waiting for care.
South Central Ambulance Service is the first in the country to rollout a new device which can perform CPR on a patient automatically.
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust has cut its total 2010-11 emissions by 3,287 tonnes, or 39 per cent, thanks to a ground-breaking sustainabili
As many as four in five people are struggling to access timely NHS dental care during the last coronavirus lockdown.
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has launched the first fully electric emergency response vehicles into its vehicle fleet.
The government is to launch nine pilots to test new ways to help ensure people stick to self-isolation rules in areas with higher prevalence of infection.
One million more people can now get the life-saving coronavirus jab, as the NHS opened bookings for people aged 32 and 33 on 22 May.
Over 1.3 million new people have registered to use the NHS App since the addition of coronavirus vaccine status was announced on 7 May.
The Department of Health and Social Care has said that more than 60 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered.
Doctors currently in training will be supported with £30 million from the government to help address the impact of the pandemic.
Failures in the Test and Trace system are partly responsible for a surge in the Indian variant in one of the worst affected parts of the country.
The RCN has urged employers to ensure all nursing staff using sharp instruments get the training they need following a 50 per cent rise in sharps injuries.
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