Global Preparedness Monitoring Board Report from an independent body focusing on health crisis preparedness warns that growing distrust, attacks on science, and geopolitics, are undermining pandemic preparedness at a time when infectious disease outbreaks are becoming deadlier and more frequent. A World on the Edge: 2026 Report – Priorities for a pandemic-resilient future
Posted: May 21, 2026, 6:09 am
UK Health Security Agency This strategy outlines UKHSA’s ambition and priority deliverables for the next 3 years to protect people from current and future health threats. UKHSA Strategy 2026 to 2029
Posted: May 21, 2026, 6:08 am
NHS England Practical and actionable guidance from NHSE to support ICBs in embedding public health expertise into governance, commissioning and service transformation. The aim is to help drive efficiency, improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities. Strengthening public health expertise within integrated care boards
Posted: May 20, 2026, 6:35 am
Health Foundation This analysis assesses the progress made on elective care waiting lists and what it means for the government’s aim to restore the 18-week standard by 2029. Progress – but is it enough? What the latest NHS waiting times mean for elective recovery
Posted: May 20, 2026, 6:34 am
Department of Health and Social Care This collection of documents contains information relating to the Health Bill, which was introduced in the House of Commons on 14 May 2026. The Health Bill is part of the modernisation agenda to improve patient care. The Bill aims to improve patient safety and experience through a new single … Continue reading Health Bill: impact assessments
Posted: May 20, 2026, 6:33 am
NHS Alliance Ahead of financial year-end, NHS Alliance surveyed integrated care boards, NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and general practice providers to build a broad understanding of experiences across the NHS. The findings reveal the progress made in the last year despite ongoing challenges from industrial action, rising demand and constrained finances. They also reveal … Continue reading Targets and trade-offs: NHS finance and performance ambitions in 2026/27
Posted: May 20, 2026, 6:32 am
World Health Organization (WHO); 2026. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping evidence-informed policy-making (EIP) in health by enabling faster analysis, synthesis and use of large and diverse data sources across the policy cycle. This discussion paper examines the intersection of AI and EIP, outlining how AI can support problem identification, policy design and implementation through … Continue reading Artificial intelligence and evidence-informed policy: emerging challenges and opportunities.
Posted: May 15, 2026, 7:21 am
Public Policy Projects; 2026. This report summarises the insights from a roundtable organised by Public Policy Projects in March 2026, exploring how patient flow can be improved across the whole care system. It finds that problems with patient flow can be linked to governance as well as technology. It looks at the potential of digital … Continue reading Beyond bed management: enabling whole-system patient flow through digital intelligence.
Posted: May 15, 2026, 7:19 am
Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research This report presents the results of the first pilot of the Graded Model of Miscarriage Care at Birmingham Women’s Hospital. The findings are clear: the model is easily achievable, shows potential to reduce the risk of future miscarriage, improves health outcomes overall and delivers substantial cost savings to the … Continue reading The Tommy’s Graded Model of Miscarriage Care: a framework for consistent care and support after each miscarriage
Posted: May 15, 2026, 7:13 am
Joint RCPCH and NPPG Medicines Committee. – April 2026 This position statement is made on behalf of the Joint RCPCH and NPPG Medicines Committee. The Medicines Committee is a collaborative standing committee with joint membership between Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group (NPPG). Safe and effective dose … Continue reading Safe and effective dose management in electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems
Posted: May 15, 2026, 7:07 am
NHS Improvement News and Alerts
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
Shoppers are being urged to look out for lumps, swelling, skin changes and unexplained bruising as Morrisons teams up with the NHS to put cancer advice on its own-brand bath and shower products. The range of nine new shower and bath products will carry messages including “Be body aware” and “Know the signs of cancer”, […]
Posted: May 11, 2026, 11:01 pm
Tens of thousands of patients could benefit from a ‘rapid’ new immunotherapy jab on the NHS for over a dozen different cancers, which can be given in just 60 seconds. The NHS is rolling out a new injectable form of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) which can slash the time the treatment takes by up to 90%, to […]
Posted: May 3, 2026, 11:01 pm
More than 1,000 NHS staff across England have used Martha’s Rule helplines to help identify rapid deterioration of a patient’s condition in the first 18 months of the scheme, new figures show. Latest NHS England data shows that between September 2024 and February 2026, 1,781 calls were made by hospital staff to Martha’s Rule helplines […]
Posted: April 30, 2026, 11:01 pm
Hospital patients at every NHS trust across England can now check their referrals and appointments through the NHS App, making it easier for millions of people to manage their care in one place. Around two-thirds (64%) of all hospital appointments are currently visible through the app, with many patients also able to reschedule or cancel appointments – helping to cut the number of missed […]
Posted: April 28, 2026, 9:30 pm
Every maternity service in England will need to meet new clinical standards, set out by the NHS, to significantly reduce the number of women who die each year during or after pregnancy. All pregnant women will be offered an early risk assessment for venous thromboembolism – blood clots that form in deep veins and are […]
Posted: April 23, 2026, 10:50 am
Millions more people are now benefiting from lifesaving bowel screening compared to a decade ago, as the NHS urges even more people to get tested. Almost 7 million people have had bowel screening from the NHS during 2024/25, compared to around 4.7 million in 2014/15. Since bowel screening started 2 decades ago, the NHS has […]
Posted: April 20, 2026, 9:16 am
Millions of eligible older people and those with a weakened immune system can now get potentially lifesaving protection from COVID-19 with NHS spring vaccinations starting this week. Tens of thousands of appointments are now available across the country every day at GP practices and community pharmacies for people aged 75 and over, older people in […]
Posted: April 20, 2026, 7:20 am
A&E waiting times have fallen to a five-year low, despite the NHS seeing record numbers of patients in March as the health service experienced a ‘prolonged winter’. There were a record breaking 2.43 million total A&E attendances in March – 16,000 more than the previous record high in May 2024. Despite the bumper demand, almost […]
Posted: April 16, 2026, 10:06 am
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