Objectives To describe the uptake and outputs of the National Health Service Health Check (NHSHC) programme in England. Design Observational study. Setting National primary care data extracted ...

The UK government has released a 10-year NHS plan, focusing on how to improve healthcare services for the future, with a ...

But what has not been achieved is having larger-scale primary care teams consistently available across the NHS. The new plan proposes new contracts and shifts of funding to enable wider change, and ...

Kirby believes a gradual rebalancing of resources can be achieved so that “the amount we spend on hospitals is growing more slowly than the amount we spend on community and primary care”.

NHS payment mechanisms will also be reformed to reward services that keep patients out of hospital as part of a new 'Year of Care Payments' initiative and the government's wider plan for change.

The NHS has built “mechanisms to keep the public away” as patients are seen as an “inconvenience”, the new head of NHS England has told The Telegraph.

Hundreds of bodies responsible for overseeing and running parts of the NHS in England will be scrapped, the government has said.

The Government’s 10-year health plan will aim at improving NHS services through relocating patient care from hospitals to community-based health centres, a greater use of digital tools, and ...

It comes as the Department of Health and Social Care confirmed 85 new mental health emergency departments will be built across England.

Dr Amanda Doyle, NHS national director of primary care and community services, said: “This new generation of systems is the first shake-up of the GP IT market we have seen in a quarter of a century, ...