Rachel Kneale, partner at law firm Weightmans, reflects on the PAC’s findings and what must happen next in order to combat the NHS’s mounting clinical negligence bill. The Public Accounts Committee’s ...

NHS England has published a letter on the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES) from April 2026. In addition, the Network Contract Directed ES: Contract specification 2026/27 – PCN requirem ...

GP practices over the last 12 months, cementing digital access as a core part of modern general practice. More….

Following the publication of the Neighbourhood Health Framework, integrated care boards (ICBs) will be considering the development of neighbourhood health centres. As strategic commissioners it is ...

This peer learning event explored how NHS boards can strengthen accountability in a changing governance landscape. Delegates examined practical alternatives to traditional structures, including the ...

The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (CPPSG) has released two resources aimed at supporting community pharmacy teams with opioid treatment programmes: Focus on Methadone, video resource: ...

The most significant overhaul of the regulation of medical professionals since 1983 will be set out in a consultation on the General Medical Council (GMC) Order – the legislation governing the ...

Paul Thomas, in collaboration with the Journal of Holistic Healthcare & Primary Care Commissioning The blog can be seen as a video podcast at In 1998, I set up the West London Research Network ...

Almost two thirds of NHS consultants are keen to work for the NHS’s online hospital when the service launches next year, a poll has revealed. Six in ten consultants (60%) said they would be interested ...

NHS England has published the NHS dental contract quality and payment reforms contractual guidance. The publication is for dental contractors, dental teams and commissioners, and provides information ...

Years of inquiries have exposed failings in maternity care in England that suggest problems are systemic. As the sector awaits Baroness Amos’s final report from a national investigation, this ...

Patients’ dissatisfaction in the NHS has fallen by its biggest margin in nearly three decades. The King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust’s British Social Attitudes survey reveals a 5.6 percentage point ...