NHS sets out plans for winter with new measures to help speed up discharge for patients and improve care
Care ‘traffic control’ centres to speed up discharge, additional ambulance hours and extra beds are part of wide-ranging plans to prepare for winter, the NHS will announce today. The robust new measures, due to be set out at the NHS England board meeting in Birmingham today, will boost capacity and resilience across the NHS as well as building on the recent improvements in ambulance response times and A&E performance.
NHS braced for severe disruption due to first consultant strikes in a decade
The NHS is bracing itself for one of the toughest strikes in its history beginning on Thursday morning, England’s top doctor has warned. Consultant doctors and hospital-based dentists will be taking strike action from 7am on Thursday until 7am on Saturday.
Drug donanemab seen as turning point in dementia fight
A new drug, donanemab, is being hailed as a turning point in the fight against Alzheimer's, after a global trial confirms it slows cognitive decline. The antibody medicine helps in the early stages of the disease by clearing a protein that builds up in the brains of people with this type of dementia. Although not a cure, charities say the results in the journal JAMA mark a new era where Alzheimer's can be treated. The UK's drugs watchdog has started assessing it for possible NHS use.
How we supported our professionals and protected the public in the last year
We’ve published a review of the work we’ve done in the past year to promote and uphold the high standards of nursing and midwifery practice the public has a right to expect.
Significant A&E demand continues for NHS amid increasing strike pressure
The hottest June on record saw heightened demand for urgent and emergency services, as staff managed more A&E attendances and saw the second highest number of the most serious ambulance incidents (category 1) for any June. Ambulance response times across all categories have seen improvements on last year, with paramedics reaching category 2 patients an average of 15 minutes faster than in June 2022. A&E four-hour performance has also improved compared to last year (73.3% vs 72.1%).
How reliant is the NHS in England on international nurse recruitment?
Registered nurse vacancies account for over a third of all full-time equivalent NHS staff vacancies in England. Compared with many other OECD countries, the UK relies heavily on internationally recruited nurses to fill funded posts. Recent Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) data underline this reliance on international nurses, showing that the annual number of new nurse registrants from outside the European Economic Area has increased significantly and in 2022/23 reached the highest level si
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