NHS England – Feb 2026 This guidance provides strategies that optimise chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care across the pathway and offer integrated care boards a consistent methodology and set of strategies for commissioning biologics. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: commissioning strategies and resources
Posted: February 6, 2026, 11:40 am
Department of Health and Social Care The National Cancer Plan sets out how cancer care will be improved so that three out of four people diagnosed with cancer survive for five years or more by 2035. To achieve this, the plan focuses on quicker diagnosis and treatment, preventive measures, accelerating innovation, expanding access to personalised … Continue reading The National Cancer Plan for England: delivering world class cancer care
Posted: February 6, 2026, 11:29 am
Independent Healthcare Providers Network With NHS community health services facing years of under-investment and entrenched waiting times, this report from the independent healthcare sector calls for providers to be brought in urgently to help patients access timely care. At scale independent healthcare providers: how can they help shift care to the community?
Posted: February 6, 2026, 11:28 am
Picker Institute Europe This report brings together findings from nine national NHS patient and staff surveys commissioned by Care Quality Commission and NHS England, mapping them against the eight Picker Principles of Person Centred Care. Set against the government’s Ten Year Plan for Health, it highlights broadly positive perceptions of care quality alongside persistent challenges … Continue reading State of person centred care 2025
Posted: February 6, 2026, 11:27 am
House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts This report finds that the government’s liability for clinical negligence quadrupled over 20 years. It argues that the Department of Health and Social Care is unable to show any meaningful action taken to address this, and that the NHS has not done enough to tackle the underlying causes … Continue reading Costs of clinical negligence
Posted: February 3, 2026, 11:43 am
Imperial College London This report shows that Norway ranks number one out of 38 OECD countries, while the UK is in 21st place. Since the 2023 report, few countries have moved significantly in the rankings, suggesting that meaningful change in patient safety takes time. The value of the data lies, say the authors, not in … Continue reading The global state of patient safety 2025
Posted: February 3, 2026, 11:42 am
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) – 15/01/26 The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has published a new report on digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI), calling on government to fix the NHS’ digital foundations, ensure digital solutions solve real world clinical problems and to protect patient safety with robust, joined-up regulation on AI. The RCP’s … Continue reading The RCP view on digital and AI report
Posted: January 30, 2026, 7:55 am
NHS Employers – 27 January 2026 Learn how Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust made sustained improvements to staff experience by co-designing their wellbeing programme. Our Future Our Way: Creating the conditions to thrive and improve wellbeing
Posted: January 30, 2026, 7:52 am
Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB); 2026. In England and Wales every year, over 347,770 people will break a bone after a fall from standing height or less. The Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) collects data on patients who have sustained fractures, using information submitted by registered fracture liaison services (FLSs). It publishes a yearly report … Continue reading Steps to fracture liaison service effectiveness: importance of treatment recommendations : Annual Report
Posted: January 30, 2026, 7:50 am
NHS Confederation This case study describes how patient access to medication has improved in Harrogate through a new system allowing hospital specialists to prescribe medications directly. Transforming outpatient prescribing at Harrogate Foundation Trust
Posted: January 27, 2026, 9:06 am
NHS Improvement News and Alerts
Ambulances handed over patients more than 2 minutes faster last month despite facing their busiest January since before COVID-19. Provisional figures out today show there were 420,324 ambulances handovers with known times in January, the highest number for the month since 2020 and a 5.2% increase compared to 399,415 in January last year. Despite this, […]
Posted: February 5, 2026, 10:00 am
Ambulances unloaded patients three minutes faster last week, even as A&Es saw more ambulance handovers than any point last winter. Figures released today show there were 94,551 ambulance handovers last week – higher than the busiest week last year (94,493 w/e 29 December 2024), and up almost 1,000 on the week previous and over 3,250 […]
Posted: January 29, 2026, 9:45 am
Patients facing suspected lung cancer could get answers sooner under a new NHS pilot using artificial intelligence and robotic technology to help doctors reach hard-to-detect cancers earlier, with fewer invasive tests. The new approach uses AI software to rapidly analyse lung scans and flag small lumps that are most likely to be cancerous, and a robotic camera is then used to […]
Posted: January 27, 2026, 12:01 am
Thousands of cases of bowel cancer will be diagnosed earlier or even prevented in England, as part of major NHS plans to increase the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening to save more lives. NHS England today announced it is to lower the threshold for a home-screening kit to trigger urgent cancer testing from next month, […]
Posted: January 26, 2026, 12:01 am
Thousands of people at higher risk of developing cancer due to inherited faulty genes will be regularly checked and tracked by the NHS thanks to a first-of-its-kind national genetics programme. The world-first genetic register, developed by the NHS, will collect patient information on over 100 genes linked to an increased risk of cancer, with plans […]
Posted: January 24, 2026, 9:00 am
The NHS is facing continuing winter pressures as the country approaches another cold snap, and as rising pressures are pushing hospitals to their busiest levels for this time of year since before COVID-19. Figures released today show more general and acute hospital beds were occupied in the week ending 18 Jan (94.5%) than at any […]
Posted: January 22, 2026, 10:50 am
Teachers, school nurses, and GPs will be offered NHS support to spot the early signs of eating disorders, so no child is left to ‘suffer in silence’. The NHS has overhauled eating disorder services in response to rising demand with the number of children and young people treated rising two fifths since the pandemic (from […]
Posted: January 20, 2026, 12:01 am
Thousands of men with prostate cancer will be offered a life-extending drug on the NHS within weeks. For the first time patients whose prostate cancer has not spread will be able to receive the drug in England, known as abiraterone, as the health service widens access to the treatment. Around 2,000 men diagnosed with prostate […]
Posted: January 16, 2026, 6:00 pm
New AI notetaking tools being backed by the NHS could help doctors spend up to a quarter more time with their patients. NHS organisations across England are being urged to take advantage of a new national registry of 19 suppliers for the technology, which captures clinician–patient conversations and uses AI to accurately generate real-time transcriptions […]
Posted: January 15, 2026, 10:30 pm
November saw the second biggest drop in the waiting list for 15 years outside of the early days of the pandemic, as new data today shows staff faced record demand in 2025. The waiting list fell by more than 86,000 in November to 7.31 million – and the milestone comes a year since the publication […]
Posted: January 15, 2026, 9:52 am
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