Since the start of the pandemic The Food Foundation has been conducting surveys to monitor levels of food insecurity in the UK. The aim of this project has been to understand the scale of the problem, ...

The government’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, and the former National Medical Director at NHS England, Professor Stephen Powis, led the Medical Training Review to understand ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform health and social care services, but can providers adopt AI at the pace and scale needed to make a real change. This report explores how ...

The NHS is setting up NHS Online – in a reform to the way healthcare is delivered in England. The new model of care will digitally connect patients to expert clinicians anywhere in England. The first ...

Optometry Today, in collaboration with the Association of Optometrists (AOP), has released two video skills guides. The first is presented by Dr Byki Huntjens, AOP education lead, exploring history ...

The oral emergency contraception pill is available for free to women from almost 10,000 pharmacies across England, without needing to see a GP first. This is part of a package that extends the ...

An innovative 15-minute blood test which can fast-track the diagnosis of children with potentially life-threatening conditions is being trialled by the NHS this winter. The hi-tech blood test can ...

The NHS's 10-Year Health Plan sets out a bold vision to reshape care delivery through the creation of 250–300 neighbourhood health centres (NHCs) by 2035. This transformation has major implications ...

The Medium Term Planning Framework – delivering change together 2026/27 to 2028/29 is an ambitious plan. Over the next three years it aims to return the NHS to much better health – with waiting times ...

The Think pharmacy first campaign helps increase public awareness that pharmacists can provide some prescription medicines if needed, without seeing a GP.

Alec Collie, Head of Medical at Wesleyan, the specialist financial mutual for doctors. Recently, we’ve been getting many questions over what the government’s plans to make pensions subject to ...

Parents will be able to get their children protected against flu this half term, as the NHS ramps up its winter vaccine campaign. England’s most senior nurse has warned parents that flu can spread ...