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THERE’S a new boss at the NHS. Today, Simon Stevens takes up the reins as chief executive of NHS England, the quango now responsible for the vast majority of the health service’s £100bn budget. Back ...

Patients across the UK are set to benefit from access to safe, effective and innovative equipment and medical devices as part of the first ever medical technology ('medtech') strategy published today.

(Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak unveiled his long-awaited plan to recruit record numbers of doctors and nurses, as he seeks to win back voters who blame his ruling UK Conservatives for the crisis facing ...

The Department for Health and Social Care has launched a cyber security programme designed to enhance cyber resilience across the NHS and the social care sector in England over the next seven years, ...

Millions of patients will be treated closer to home under plans to "fundamentally rewire" the NHS in England, the prime minister has said. A new network of neighbourhood health hubs will be set up to ...

Integrating artificial intelligence into the NHS represents a “significant challenge” for decision makers, an innovation ...

The NHS could prevent thousands more heart attacks and strokes every year by offering everyone in the UK aged 50 and over a single "polypill" combining a statin and three blood pressure lowering drugs ...

Plans to create 'virtual wards' and offer more support at home to the elderly and vulnerable could ease pressure on hospitals in the short-term, but ignore the pressing issue of staff shortages, the ...

The NHS sexual safety charter was launched in September 2023 and committed organisations to a zero-tolerance approach to unwanted sexual behaviour. But the charity Rights of Women says calls from NHS ...

Work has begun on a £3.4 million refurbishment and change‑of‑use scheme at the Frank Lloyd Unit, Sittingbourne Memorial Hospital, bringing under‑used NHS estate back into active clinical use to ...