The women’s health strategy, which has been published this week, includes an aim to improve healthy life expectancy in the ...

“Today’s data shows the NHS has made real progress in February and March to try to meet its interim targets. The fact that these improvements have not quite been fast enough is a reminder that the ...

Health professionals such as nurses, pharmacists and AHPs who can prescribe medicines, known as independent prescribers, are ...

With the 10-year health plan criticised for lacking detail on how the litany of initiatives and ideas within it will be ...

"Last night’s statement commits the NHS to paying 25% more for new branded medicines, and confirms the weakening of its cost ...

Baroness Casey’s recent call for a national safeguarding board was another reminder of safeguarding’s crucial role across ...

Independent prescribing is seen as central to NHS plans to shift more care into community settings and better support people ...

This online book is the new home of NHShistory.net. The book traces the story of the NHS, recounting how it was set up, what happened next, and why. It was written by Geoffrey Rivett, and the resource ...

High levels of sickness absence make NHS nurses more likely to leave their role, but long absence periods due to mental ill ...

This year’s responses to the annual British Social Attitudes survey on the NHS and social care are as complex to interpret as they are hopeful. A significant six percentage point increase and the ...