The NHS will focus on delivering faster treatment for hundreds of thousands of patients – including for planned surgeries and emergency care – as the number of national targets is almost halved under ...

NHS England is responsible for determining allocations of financial resources to integrated care boards (ICBs) from April 2022. Total annual budgets given to ICBs cover the majority of NHS spending.

We have now published, for consultation, the draft 2025/26 NHS Standard Contract (both full length and shorter-form versions). The consultation paper describes the main, material changes we are ...

The NHS Standard Contract is mandated by NHS England for use by commissioners for all contracts for healthcare services other than primary care, and NHS England is now consulting on changes to the ...

Forward View pointed out that one in four of us will experience mental health problems, and mental illness is the single ...

The major work programmes mapped out in this Plan are underpinned by an agreed, costed and phased NHS technology plan, ...

Despite a growing workforce, NHS staff are under real pressure. The number and complexity of the patients they care for ...

Like healthcare systems all over the world there are times when things go tragically wrong. We all understand that healthcare ...

The number of beds taken up by norovirus patients has hit its highest level so far this winter, with an average of 898 people a day in hospital with the virus last week. There was a 15% jump in ...

The report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) contains basic factual inaccuracies and a flawed understanding of how the NHS and the government’s financial processes work. “While NHS productivity ...

Hundreds of potential kidney donors of Black African and Black Caribbean heritage can now get a simple blood test to help reduce the risk of kidney failure. The test is part of national genetic ...

This is an agreement between NHS England and the Independent Healthcare Providers Network to work together for the benefit of NHS patients. 1.1 In 2000, the Department of Health and Independent ...