Action is needed to help the NHS need create a sustainable, skilled and ‘fit-for-purpose’ health and care workforce, the Lancet … Read More “NHS needs a ‘fit-for-purpose’ workforce strategy”
The provision of vaccination and immunisation services will become an essential service for all routine NHS-funded vaccinations with two exceptions: … Read More “Update on vaccination and immunisation changes for 2021/22”
People should take precautions when hugging others, says an expert, amid expectations of a further easing of England’s Covid restrictions … Read More “Caution over hugs as lockdown eases”
A new report from a working group led by the LMC has highlighted discrimination faced by staff and patients from … Read More “Discrimination in General Practice”
The false narrative that general practice is not open to patients is ‘extremely damaging’ at a time when practice managers, … Read More “Accusations of general practice being closed”
Sir Simon took up post on 1 April 2014, having first joined the NHS in 1988 through its graduate management … Read More “NHS Chief Sir Simon Stevens to stand down this summer”
Many healthcare systems prohibit primary care physicians from dispensing the drugs they prescribe due to concerns that this encourages excessive, … Read More “Financial incentives and prescribing behaviour in primary care”
The Covid vaccination rollout has progressed at pace in the UK – more than 25 million people have now been … Read More “Staffing, IT and second doses”
Working with the NHS, photojournalists have captured the monumental collective effort of the largest vaccination programme in British history in … Read More “People behind the national vaccination effort”
The NHS said it would set out when 40 to 43-year-olds would be able to book appointments “in the coming … Read More “Vaccine rollout in England extends”