Healthcare Financial Management Association This framework, developed with the Health Economics Unit, is designed to support health and care leaders to systematically evaluate, prioritise and implement decommissioning and disinvestment decisions, particularly in systems facing significant financial deficit. A framework for the ethical and effective decommissioning and disinvestment of clinical service
Posted: June 16, 2026, 7:35 am
Medical Protection Society This report argues that UK law has not kept pace with the rapid growth of AI in health care. It calls for legal reform to treat AI systems as products and ensure liability is fairly shared among developers, manufacturers, and users, arguing this would improve fairness, encourage safer AI design, increase clinician … Continue reading Closing the AI liability gap: AI, safety, and the case for legislative change
Posted: June 16, 2026, 6:12 am
NHS Employers Frimley Health, a historically high-performing trust, saw a dip in NHS Staff Survey scores in 2022. In response, it adopted a more focused approach in 2025, targeting key staff experience priorities and introducing initiatives such as an employee experience team and champions network to strengthen engagement, wellbeing and employee voice. Sustaining excellent staff … Continue reading Sustaining excellent staff experience at Frimley Health
Posted: June 16, 2026, 6:11 am
Magentus This report, commissioned by Magentus (a health technology company) and written by ZPB Associates (a London-based strategy and data-led healthcare consultancy) examines the current pressures facing diagnostics in England. It draws on new analysis of NHS England performance data and the expertise of a steering group. The report outlines a series of recommendations to … Continue reading Strengthening the backbone: reimagining NHS diagnostics in England
Posted: June 16, 2026, 6:10 am
UK Health Security Agency The HSRA is UKHSA’s assessment characterising a selection of the most significant health security risks facing the UK over the next 5 years; it is designed to be a tool for informing strategic and operational planning and strengthening preparedness and resilience. Health Security Risk Assessment (HSRA): 2025 Edition
Posted: June 12, 2026, 6:16 am
NHS Providers This toolkit is an output of a Collaborative Working Project Agreement between the NHS Alliance and Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly). Lilly provided funding for the project and contributed to the development of this resource. This toolkit is intended for use by UK healthcare professionals, payers and other relevant decision- makers interested in … Continue reading Overcoming Challenges in RedesigningNHS Weight Management Services Toolkit
Posted: June 12, 2026, 6:09 am
DHSC – 30th March 2026 This agreement sets out the arrangements under which the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care delegates to NHS England responsibility for certain elements of the Secretary of State’s public health functions. This agreement and the functions delegated by it are additional to, and distinct from, the health service … Continue reading NHS public health functions agreement 2026 to 2027
Posted: June 12, 2026, 6:05 am
NHS England – 11th June 2026 This framework describes NHS England’s approach to oversight of integrated care boards, NHS trusts and foundation trusts. Further information is available on the NHS Oversight Framework webpage. NHS Oversight Framework 2026/27
Posted: June 12, 2026, 6:03 am
Medical and Surgical Outcome Review Programme The Medical and Surgical Outcome Review Programme, delivered by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), has published Learning Together, a review of the quality of care provided to adults with a learning disability who were admitted to hospital acutely unwell. Adults with a learning disability when … Continue reading Adults with a learning disability when admitted to hospital acutely unwell
Posted: June 12, 2026, 5:59 am
National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP) This report is a longitudinal overview of respiratory care across England and Wales, using data from people admitted to hospital with COPD and asthma (adults and children and young people), and people assessed for pulmonary rehabilitation between April 2021 and March 2025. Respiratory care – State of the Nation 2026 … Continue reading Respiratory care – State of the Nation 2026 report
Posted: June 12, 2026, 5:58 am
NHS Improvement News and Alerts
Industrial action by resident doctors will be taking place from 7am on Monday 15 June to 6:59am Friday 19 June 2026. This four-day strike coincides with more expected hot weather and the start of the football World Cup, with millions turning out to watch England’s first match against Croatia on Wednesday. The NHS’s top doctor […]
Posted: June 12, 2026, 11:01 pm
‘Groundbreaking’ NHS teams that have freed up thousands of hospital beds, accelerated cancer diagnosis, and transformed care for patients have been recognised at the inaugural 2026 NHS Excellence Awards. Held today at NHS ConfedExpo in Manchester, the awards celebrated some of the most innovative and impactful healthcare initiatives from across England, showcasing how frontline staff […]
Posted: June 11, 2026, 12:32 pm
A&Es experienced their busiest month on record in May, as last month’s heatwave piled pressure on NHS services. The NHS managed 2,457,398 attendances in A&E during May – up 25,000 on the previous record set in March earlier this year – according to newly published NHS data. The figures mean the NHS has now seen […]
Posted: June 11, 2026, 12:04 pm
Thousands of men with prostate cancer are to be offered high-powered ‘precision’ radiotherapy on the NHS to target the disease more effectively, helping reduce side-effects and spare them 15 courses of treatment. NHS England has today announced that, for the first time, eligible men with early prostate cancer will be offered pioneering therapy known as […]
Posted: June 9, 2026, 11:01 pm
More than half a million NHS staff are being given access to new artificial intelligence (AI) tools that could free up an average of 2 days every month from admin duties, freeing up more time for the duties that matter most for patients and staff. NHS England announced today that it is significantly accelerating AI […]
Posted: June 7, 2026, 11:01 pm
Hundreds of women with hard-to-treat ovarian cancer could benefit from a new, life-extending drug on the NHS from today – the first new addition to NHS treatment in over 20 years. The new targeted therapy – mirvetuximab soravtansine – will be offered to patients living with ovarian cancer whose disease has stopped responding to standard […]
Posted: June 3, 2026, 11:01 pm
The chair of the NHS’s groundbreaking new online hospital trust has been named as business leader and former supermarket chief executive John Browett. NHS Online, which will provide virtual specialist care for patients through the NHS App and video consultations, has now been formally established as the Online NHS Trust. John is a former chief […]
Posted: June 3, 2026, 12:59 pm
Thousands of people in England have had lung cancer caught early thanks to NHS scanning trucks in supermarket car parks, sports stadiums and busy high streets. New NHS data shows 10,678 lung cancers have been detected through the programme since it began – more than three quarters of which were caught at stages one or […]
Posted: May 24, 2026, 11:01 pm
The NHS has hit its target for the number of patients waiting 18-weeks thanks to the biggest improvement in waiting times since the launch of the iPad. In March, 65.3% of patients were waiting 18-weeks, as the waiting list fell by over 312,000 last year, the largest year-on-year reduction in 16 years. The improvement in […]
Posted: May 14, 2026, 8:49 am
Hundreds more children with muscle-wasting condition spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are to be offered potentially “life-changing” therapy on the NHS which could help them live years longer and attend primary school. From today, 2 innovative treatments for SMA – nusinersen and risdiplam – will be made routinely available on the NHS in England following an access scheme to collect more evidence, giving hundreds of families long term-certainty. NHS […]
Posted: May 13, 2026, 11:01 pm
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