Emergency temporary registers for health professionals – introduced as part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic – will permanently close on 31 March 2024
The government has set out how it will control the cost of branded health service medicines, following a recent consultation.
Cancer Research UK has launched a manifesto setting out how the next UK government could dramatically improve cancer outcomes and prevention.
The Department of Health and Social Care has published a technical report about the methodology and data used to model the effects of the smokefree generation policy.
NHS England has published annual highlights of the medicines repurposing programme.
NHS England has published aggregated full-year reporting data for the better care fund (BCF), which also sets out progress on BCF plans.
The health and social care mean gender pay gap has reduced to 8.3% – a 1.2 percentage point reduction from 2022 and a 5.9 percentage point reduction from 2017 (when reporting began).
Data published today by NHS England shows there were 51,245 additional nurses in September 2023 compared with 2019.
The number of patients in hospital with norovirus last week was almost triple the number during the same period last winter, NHS figures show.
CIPFA publication calls for an approach to funding adult social care where adequate funding is provided in the short term for services to recover and deal with current challenges.