An additional £12million will be spent over the next two years to expand services that make mental health assessments available for people when they are first arrested.
The process of cervical screening is to be changed to allow women to benefit from better, more accurate tests, Public Health Minister Jane Ellison announced.
Plans to ensure high quality, compassionate care for everyone at the end of life have been unveiled today (5 July) by Health Minister Ben Gummer.
Today Alistair Burt met with family members of people who lost their lives while under the care of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. Read his statement following the meeting below. Health Minister Alistair Burt said: "Today I met patients and family …
The HSJ has reported that NHS finance directors are being pressured to agree to "fundamentally unsustainable" financial targets for 2016/17. Here is our response.
A new, simpler, bowel cancer home testing kit will be rolled out across England and should see an extra 200,000 people tested a year.
- Tough new targets to limit inappropriate use of antibiotics - Commitment to halve drug-resistant infections by 2020 - New drive to encourage development of new antibiotics The UK will lead the international fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by bringing …
Each year on International Clinical Trials Day (Friday 20 May), the NIHR ‘Ok to Ask' campaign calls on patients, their families, and carers to ask their nurse or doctor about taking part in health research.
Today NHS Improvement has released official figures showing the total NHS deficit for 2015/16. Here's our statement in response. A Department of Health spokesperson said: "We know finances are challenging, but we are committed to the NHS which is why we're investing …
On 18 May, ACAS issued a statement setting out the terms of an agreement presented to the government and NHS Employers, and to the BMA. This has now been agreed by all parties as resolving the current dispute, subject to securing …
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