World Cancer Day: How the government is tackling cancer
...year. For breast cancer more than a million breast cancer scans were carried out last year with an estimated 1,300 lives saved. We also increased funding by £10 million to...
...year. For breast cancer more than a million breast cancer scans were carried out last year with an estimated 1,300 lives saved. We also increased funding by £10 million to...
...encourage dentists to spend a greater proportion of their time delivering NHS care. Take advantage of EU Exit freedoms to explore reducing nurse clinical placement hours and support education institutions...
*Updated 2 February 2024* Obesity costs the NHS around £6.5 billion a year and is the second biggest preventable cause of cancer. Over one in four (26%) adults and 23.4%...
...take at least two weeks in younger people and at least three weeks in older people before you can expect to have a good antibody response. Even then, you must...
Patients Summary Our health system is in crisis. If we don’t act now, we risk the NHS ceasing to exist as a publicly funded service, free at the point of...
...interval between doses as recommended by JCVI in January 2021. However, we now know that two doses of vaccine are very much better than one dose for protection against infection...
...health service has at least an extra 60,000 doctors, 170,000 more nurses and 71,000 more allied health professionals in place by 2036/37. Do other countries have similar roles? The Physician...
The government has met its target of recruiting 26,000 additional primary care professionals – one year ahead of the March 2024 deadline. Data published today by NHS England shows...
...are on track to reach our target of 26,000 more staff in primary care by March 2024. These extra staff helped to deliver almost two million more GP appointments in...
...digitisation, keep people independent at home, and improve local authority oversight and new data collections. We are also increasing the Better Care Fund, which brings together health, social care and...
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