Rising numbers of doctors are moving away from the traditional postgraduate training model and choosing increased flexibility and less linear career pathways, according to the General Medical Council.
An NHS capital strategy will now not be published until summer next year. The strategy was originally intended to be published in autumn 2020.
The Department of Health and Social Care has reopened a consultation on whether the costs of disbursements should be included within specified recoverable costs in the lower damages clinical negligence claim fixed recoverable costs scheme (LDFRC) or should be separately recoverable.
The chief medical officer's annual report calls for focus on maximising old people's independence and minimising time in ill health, as well as concentration on non-urban areas.
Two years into its 10-year plan to overhaul adult social care, the government has delayed proposals to cap the lifetime care costs a person pays and scaled back plans for reforming the system it set out in December 2021.
NHS staff are managing record demand for emergency care ahead of winter, with new data showing type 1 accident and emergency (A&E) departments and ambulance services had their busiest month this year in October.
NHS England has announced it is allocating a total of £800m to trusts to help them cover the costs of industrial action.
The government has allocated £70m for stop smoking services and support in every local authority in England – more than double the current funding available.
A new report from The King’s Fund finds that people from the most deprived areas in England are more likely to have long waits for planned hospital care than people from less deprived areas.
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine in Scotland has called for an urgent increase in bed numbers, after latest data showing more than 4,000 patients faced 12-hour delays in Scottish accident and emergency (A&E) departments.