A prostate cancer screening trial is to get under way in the UK, backed by £42m from the government and Prostate Cancer UK.
The Public Accounts Committee has published a highly critical report about the lack of progress in the government new hospital programme.
Pharmacy first – a new service that will enable pharmacists to supply NHS medicines to treat seven common health conditions – will launch on 31 January 2024, the Department of Health and Social Care advised this week.
At least one third of adult social care leaders in England need to find another £84m of cuts heading into winter, according to the autumn survey by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.
Just 5% of UK public organisations are paying the minimum price for homecare calculated by the Homecare Association.
NHS England has confirmed that it ‘remains on track’ to open the national cost collection window as planned on 20 November.
New health and social care secretary Victoria Atkins was encouraged this week to focus on seven ways in which she can make a difference over the next year.
The Commons Health and Social Care Committee has called on the Department of Health and Social Care to clarify funding arrangements for the roll-out of the right care, right person strategy, which changes the way emergency services respond to mental health calls and means police will not automatically be the first responders.
More than three quarters of trust leaders said their trusts were ‘very unlikely’ or ‘unlikely’ to end 2023/24 in a better financial position than 2022/23, according to NHS Providers.
An NHS capital strategy will now not be published until summer next year. The strategy was originally intended to be published in autumn 2020.