12/11/2025
Bevan Brittan provides high quality, comprehensive advice to the NHS, independent healthcare sector and local authorities. This update contains brief details of recent Government publications, legislation, cases and other developments relevant to those involved in health and social care work, both in the NHS, independent sector and local authorities which have been published in the last month.
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Webinars
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The Implications of Hillsborough Law 13 November. The forthcoming Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2025, known informally as ‘Hillsborough Law’, presents a landmark shift in public sector accountability. The Bill introduces a new ‘duty of candour’ on public sector officials and a legal duty to assist in inquests and public inquiries, backed by criminal sanctions. Join us as we explore what these reforms mean in practice for healthcare providers and local authorities, and the likely impact of expanding legal aid for bereaved families to all inquests where a public authority is an interested person.
PSIRF and Claims - 18 November. Join us for a discussion on how PSIRF is impacting on clinical negligence claims, the inquest process, and how different learning responses are received by families.
Diagnosing Death: Clinical and Legal Considerations. 27 November. Join us for this session where we will discuss the clinical and legal aspects of diagnosing death.
Please note that registration for each webinar will close one hour before the webinar starts, so please do ensure you have booked your place in advance to guarantee attendance.
Acute and Emergency Care
Publications/guidance
Corridor care. This report finds that almost one in five patients in emergency departments were being cared for in trolleys or chairs in corridors in England this summer, with so-called ‘corridor care’ leaving people feeling ‘forgotten and vulnerable’. The research, compiled by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine which acts as secretariat for the APPG, reveals what patients are experiencing when they seek urgent or emergency care in emergency departments, the harm they are exposed to, and what needs to be done to address this crisis.
The longest wait: our A&E crisis demands an emergency response. This report calls for urgent and decisive action from the government to stamp out corridor care and bring down the number of long waits in A&E. This report uses stories from older people who have had to face treatment, tests, and life-changing news in unsafe conditions and without privacy. It also highlights that in some hospitals, long waits and corridor care remain relatively unusual. Many older people continue to have a quick and very positive experience if they go to A&E – but there’s a postcode lottery and too many others do not. It highlights that there is a lot that hospitals can do to minimise long waits and corridor care but strong national leadership from the Government is essential to drive change.
How we can help
For more information on issues around acute and emergency care, please contact Claire Bentley.
Children and young people
Publications/Guidance
Causes of trauma from children's healthcare. This report reveals the most common causes of trauma and how play can prevent it. Based on a national surveys of parents, children and health care professionals, the findings show that 1 in 9 children feel worried or upset when held down for treatment, putting an estimated 1.4 million at risk of trauma.
Transitional safeguarding. Research in Practice has published a briefing on safeguarding young people as they make the transition from adolescence into adulthood, highlighting a disconnect between the safeguarding systems for children and adults. The briefing discusses the concept of ‘transitional safeguarding’ and sets out six key principles, as well as outlining challenges and enablers to developing transitional safeguarding approaches.
Developing your strategic response to child sexual abuse. A guide for safeguarding children partnerships to build an effective, evidence-based strategy covering each part of their response to child sexual abuse.
Proposed changes to the availability of puberty blockers for under 18s. Proposal to make a permanent order to prevent new patients aged under 18 from beginning to take puberty blockers for the purposes of gender incongruence and/or gender dysphoria, under the care of private prescribers. Change made:- Updated to correct the following reference to the Cass Review in the ‘Background’ section of the consultation response. Replaced ‘The Cass Review recommended that puberty suppressing hormones should only be prescribed in the context of a clinical trial or under the guidance of the national multi-disciplinary team’ with ‘The Cass Review recommended that puberty suppressing hormones should only be prescribed to under 18s in the context of a research protocol and clinical trial’.
Domestic abuse. The Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales has published new research examining the family justice system and domestic abuse. The research included a review of 298 case files, observation of 95 hearings and work with domestic abuse survivors, judges, magistrates and Cafcass/Cafcass Cymru officers. Evidence of domestic abuse was present in 73% of the hearings observed and in 87% of the case files reviewed. Despite this prevalence, the Commissioner highlights that domestic abuse was frequently not recognised as an ‘active issue’ or taken seriously with regards to the type of contact children would go on to have with the abusive parent. The report explores: the prevalence of domestic abuse in private law children cases; the courts’ responses to domestic abuse; the consequences of structural barriers including the silencing of children’s voices; and next steps for the Family Courts Review and Reporting Mechanism.
Kingdon review of children's hearing services: final report. This is the final report of the independent review of children’s hearing services in England chaired by Dr Camilla Kingdon. The review makes twelve key recommendations grouped into three themes: addressing the immediate areas for improvement with the NHS England’s Paediatric Hearing Services Improvement Programme; placing services on a secure footing by looking at commissioning, staffing, data, research and deaf awareness; and lessons for similar at-risk services to mitigate future crises, including workforce and culture changes.
10 Year Workforce Plan: RCPCH submission to the Department of Health and Social Care call for evidence. This report outlines the gaps in the child health workforce. It argues that the lack of focus on children in health policy has led to the UK experiencing some of the worst health outcomes for children and young people in Europe. It makes a series of recommendations for the 10 Year Workforce Plan with a focus on growing the workforce, retaining and supporting staff, investing in community roles, and modernising workforce planning.
Bridging the gap : how Barnardo’s BIRD service supports children and young people’s mental health
Barnardo’s Inner Resilience and Development (BIRD) service supports children and young people with mental health difficulties outside of hospital. This evaluation shows that it improves their mental health and wellbeing, helps parents, carers and families to understand their children’s mental health and support them, and has the capacity to reduce the pressure on NHS services.
News
'Challenges' remain in police response to grooming gangs
Government acts to tackle rising childhood obesity epidemic. The government will underline its commitment to get children heathier and more active following new figures revealing the scale of the childhood obesity problem.
How we can help
If you wish to discuss any queries you may have around children please contact Deborah Jeremiah or Callum Scott .
Clinical Risk / Patient Safety
Publications/Guidance
Research matters: enabling and sustaining a research-positive culture for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. This guide suggests actions executive chief nurses can take to help their organisation become a research-positive healthcare organisation with research sustainably embedded in everyday practice and professional decision-making.
Delayed diagnosis of cancer: a thematic review of general practice indemnity claims. This thematic review identifies three key areas for improvement: optimising diagnostic processes; enhancing communication within consultations and across the healthcare system; and empowering patients through increased self-referral pathways and escalation mechanisms. The report emphasises that many general practice consultations are safe, with GPs referring people on urgent suspected cancer pathways in record numbers. The analysis covers a comparatively small number of cases where there were identified failures in the pathway.
Costs of clinical negligence. This report finds that the cost of settling clinical negligence claims has more than tripled in last two decades. Cost increases in the last ten years were largely due to a small number of high-value claims. It also discovers that there is a risk that government may be paying twice in some cases: first by settling a claim, and then again by paying for further treatment as patients could go on to use publicly funded health or social care services, despite the settlement being paid with the assumption that they will use the private sector. With the cost of clinical negligence continuing to rise, and in response to PAC’s concerns, this investigation sets out:
1. long-term changes in the government’s liability for clinical negligence and the amounts needed to settle claims (Part One);
2. the drivers of claims volume and costs (Part Two); and
3. the factors that could affect the future cost of clinical negligence, including systemic pressures (Part Three).
NHS injury costs recovery scheme. Guidance for NHS trusts on the application of the NHS injury costs recovery (ICR) scheme for 2025 to 2026.
Independent maternity and neonatal investigation: terms of reference. Terms of reference for the independent investigation into maternity and neonatal care in England.
The 10 Year Health Plan for England. This briefing provides an overview of the government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England, published in July 2025. It also includes a summary of some of the key stakeholder responses and analysis, and updates on implementation.
Investigating under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF): sharing HSSIB learning for future development. This report shares learning and insights from HSSIB’s education and investigation teams about patient safety incident investigation under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). The report is intended for national and local organisations and policymakers to help inform future work to support staff in system-based investigation across the NHS in England. Although the focus of the report is investigations, the learning and insights are also applicable to other learning responses under PSIRF.
News
Bevan Brittan Updates
PSIRF – the road to more consistent implementation - Joanna Lloyd
Bevan Brittan Events
The Implications of Hillsborough Law 13 November. The forthcoming Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2025, known informally as ‘Hillsborough Law’, presents a landmark shift in public sector accountability. The Bill introduces a new ‘duty of candour’ on public sector officials and a legal duty to assist in inquests and public inquiries, backed by criminal sanctions. Join us as we explore what these reforms mean in practice for healthcare providers and local authorities, and the likely impact of expanding legal aid for bereaved families to all inquests where a public authority is an interested person.
PSIRF and Claims - 18 November. Join us for a discussion on how PSIRF is impacting on clinical negligence claims, the inquest process, and how different learning responses are received by families.
Diagnosing Death: Clinical and Legal Considerations. 27 November. Join us for this session where we will discuss the clinical and legal aspects of diagnosing death.
How we can help
We are working with clients on formulating policies and making it easier to balance treatment with finite resources. We are helping with social care policies and day to day activities such as contact and isolation, human rights issues and life/death decisions. We are working on notifications of harm and death, RIDDOR, CQC compliance, judicial review, infection control law and grappling with the new regulations and guidance. For more information click here.
If you wish to discuss any clinical risk or patient safety issues please contact Joanne Easterbrook or Daniel Morris.
Digital Health
Publications/guidance
Implementation and scaling of AI in health and social care AI has the potential to transform NHS and social care services, but can providers adopt AI at the pace and scale needed to make a real change?
Patients to benefit from cutting-edge NHS care from their homes. More patients will receive faster, more convenient care from the comfort of their own homes, through the rollout of new digital technologies across the NHS.
Designing the future health and care digital architecture. This report makes a series of recommendations to help modernise digital architecture, including the adoption of patient-centred reference architecture and a mandated core data model to eliminate the need for ‘one-off’ integrations. The report synthesises insights from the third roundtable in the Digital and Data Transformation series, which brought together leaders and experts from the NHS, integrated care systems, social care, local government, academia, and industry to address the critical challenges in modernising health and care services through digital and data transformation.
The digital generation – young people’s thoughts on health and care technology. Curious about how young people really feel about health tech? Read our latest blog to hear from Moyosola and Esther of the Barnardo’s Youth Forum as they share their concerns and ideas on what solutions could help young people navigate health in a digital world.
As a board, what does your digital lead need from you? This report explores how board members can support their digital leads to realise the benefits of digital transformation.
Digitally supported monitoring in inpatient mental health: a case study from NHS mental health trusts. This case study explores how digital technology can be used to strengthen risk management, improve quality of care and drive greater efficiency in mental health inpatient facilities. The platform enables staff to carry out observations with greater accuracy and without disturbing patients’ sleep at night. Beyond observations, it provides continuous, objective data that supports clinical decision-making – helping staff judge when intervention is needed and how best to plan patient care.
Bevan Brittan Updates
AI Regulation in the NHS: MHRA’s new national commission to set the agenda - Ralph Giles
Recordings of our events
Talking Heads: NHS 10-Year Plan – Artificial Intelligence. In the first video of our new series on the NHS 10-Year Plan, Dan Morris and Ralph Giles explore how AI is reshaping healthcare delivery, from diagnostics to data management.
Talking Heads: NHS 10-Year Plan – Analogue to Digital.In the second video in our series on the NHS 10-Year Plan, Richard Lane and Ian McKie discuss one of its most transformative elements – the shift from Analogue to Digital.
How we can help
If you wish to discuss any queries you may have around Digital Health please contact Daniel Morris.
Employment/HR
Publications/guidance
Active bystanders: promoting inclusion, civility and respect. Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Integrated Care System launched the Active Bystander Programme to address issues of bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace. By equipping staff with the knowledge, skills and confidence to intervene when witnessing inappropriate behaviours, the programme fosters a culture of respect, inclusion and psychological safety across the system.
NHS pay and pensions. This briefing outlines trends in NHS pay and pensions and explains how pay decisions are made.
DHSC evidence for the NHSPRB: pay round 2026 to 2027. Evidence submitted to the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) by the Department of Health and Social Care for the pay round 2026 to 2027.
Why management matters so much for the success of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan. This long read from the King's Fund examines the current state of NHS management and how it needs to be strengthened and professionalised if it is to realise the ambitions of the 10 Year Health Plan for England. It highlights the need for both the political and policy centre, and leaders of local NHS bodies, to create the conditions for a more devolved, trustful and healthy NHS organisational culture.
Sexism and sexual violence towards medical students. This report shines a spotlight on the issue of sexism and sexual violence in UK medical education, as identified by medical students themselves, those most affected by these issues, who are advocating for change. It provides an overview of the scope of the problem and presents recommendations for effective strategies to begin addressing the problems raised. The survey of almost 1,000 medical students finds that sexism and sexual violence are widespread in UK medical schools and clinical placements, where students report experiencing sexual harassment, sexual assault and institutional neglect.
Plan B: what the forthcoming NHS workforce strategy should not ignore. As the government prepares to publish a new ten year NHS workforce plan, questions remain about how to build a realistic and sustainable approach to staffing the health service. This long read reflects on lessons from the 2023 plan, including overambitious growth targets and gaps in understanding around retention, and considers what priorities the next plan should address to ensure the NHS can recruit and keep the staff it needs.
Schemes for supporting the research workforce. This briefing showcases practical, replicable examples from NHS trusts that have successfully integrated research into their workforce strategies.
Who picks up the phone? Different approaches to NHS admin. Improving NHS admin isn’t easy – but some solutions are surprisingly simple. Julia Cream looks at two real life examples of admin done differently.
Consultant doctors: solutions for a medical recruitment crisis. This report argues that the NHS is facing an escalating consultant recruitment crisis that threatens NHS capacity and patient outcomes. It finds that one in three consultant jobs are unfilled in some parts of the NHS, leading to a £674m spend on locums and negative impact on staff morale and patient care.
The Medical Training Review: Phase 1 diagnostic report. This diagnostic report sets out the current state of medical training and identifies eleven recommendations, including four key priorities: making training more flexible; building on excellence beyond formal routes; addressing damaging bottlenecks; and rebuilding inclusive team structures where doctors feel valued. While the report acknowledges risks and trade-offs in implementing major changes, it concludes that the gap between current practice and future needs is significant enough to justify action.
Right-touch regulation. The PSA helps to protect the public by improving the regulation and registration of people who work in health and care. Its oversight involves reviewing the work of the regulators of health and care professionals and accrediting organisations that register health and care practitioners working in unregulated occupations. Right-touch regulation is the approach the PSA applies in its work, and encourages others to adopt it as well. It involves assessing the level of risk of harm to the public and deciding on the most proportionate and effective response to mitigate that risk – whether through regulation or other means.
Clinical leadership in transition: reflections on the 10 Year Health Plan. What does the future of clinical leadership look like in the face of bold ambitions and fragile foundations? Sharon Nash shares reflections from a recent roundtable with clinical directors.
News
Government to tackle antisemitism and other racism in the NHS. The government takes urgent action to tackle antisemitism and other forms of racism in the NHS.
Resident doctors to strike for five days next month
Bevan Brittan Updates
Changes to the Immigration rules –Sheetal Gaur
How we can help
We can offer support and advice on managing many workforce issues including flexing your workforce to respond to the pandemic, managing bank staff, redeployment, vulnerable groups, sick pay, leave options, supporting staff well-being, presenteeism, remote and home working, through FAQs, helpline or policy guidance and practical day to day advice.
If you wish to discuss any employment issues generally please contact Jodie Sinclair, Alastair Currie, Oonagh Sharma, James Gutteridge, Andrew Uttley, Joanna Burrows and Lee Carroll.
Finance
Publications/guidance
Understanding preventative investment: a practical approach to map and measure spend. This report and how-to guide explains how public sector organisations can define, map and measure preventative investment across their services. Designed to be used alongside the plug-and-play tool, it shows how making prevention visible in financial terms supports evidence-based decision-making and the shift toward prevention.
Short-term gain, long-term pain: the investment curbing crunch in social care. This short paper outlines the impact that shrinking provider budgets have on the long-term investment in the adult social care sector’s future, and the knock-on impact this has on increased year-on-year care costs for the future.
Restoring stability: practical measures for a pressured sector. This associated report highlights solutions that adult social care providers can implement in the here and now that will play some part in alleviating the increasing cost pressures on social care providers.
Investing in the NHS: empowering the sector to drive productivity, renewal and growth. This report says years of underinvestment and challenges around capital spending have left the NHS with facilities that are too often outdated and unfit for purpose. It shows how the health service could unlock billions of pounds of extra funding for NHS buildings and equipment, transforming care for patients, reviving high streets and delivering key worker housing.
How we can help
For more information on issues around finance, please contact Claire Bentley.
Health Inequalities
Publications/Guidance
Patients in poorer areas to get better access to GPs. Review of GP funding formula expected to deliver fairer distribution of funding and tackle health inequalities.
How we can help
We have a multidisciplinary team advising NHS commissioners and providers on all aspects of tackling health inequalities, ranging from:
- advising on the new legal framework and compliance with the relevant statutory duties, particularly in the context of service reconfiguration;
- addressing workforce inequalities;
- taking action on patient safety to reduce health inequalities;
- the role of the Care Quality Commission in tackling health inequalities; and
- lessons to be learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic.
If you wish to discuss any queries you may have around health inequalities please contact Julia Jones.
Independent Health
News
Faster care for thousands thanks to NHS use of independent sector. Hundreds of thousands of people are receiving faster care thanks to the government’s partnership with the private sector - free at the point of use.
How we can help
For more information on issues around independent health, please contact Tim Hodgetts or Julie Charlton.
Information sharing/data
BB Updates
Data Matters - October 2025 - Vicki Bowles
Engaging employees with data protection - Vicki Bowles
How we can help
Our specialist team brings a unique combination of experience and skill from across the health, social care, and local authority sectors to help you meet the wide ranging challenges faced organisationally as you deal with the various and complex legislation in respect of information law. That team understands the practical way those legal frameworks impact the range of issues faced, as well as the diverse nature of both public and regulatory expectation in relation to “personal data”, “data protection”, “freedom of information”, “access to health records” and wider “information governance”. As well as assisting your organisation in dealing with challenging requests for disclosure, we can also help to provide strategic advice in relation to policy and information security, as well as bespoke organisational training on key legal issues.
If you wish to discuss any information law and / or governance issues facing your organisation, and how we may help, please contact Jane Bennett.
Inquests
Bevan Brittan Updates
Coronial investigative powers: social media and the death of a child - Amrita Hurst
How we can help
If you wish to discuss any queries you may have around inquests, please contact Amanda Wright- Kluger, Tracey Longfield or Claire Leonard.
Integrated Care
Publications/Guidance
NHS Commissioning Responsibility: Who is the responsible ICB? Anna Davies covered:
1. The legal framework for determining the NHS commissioner
2. Out of area placements- when is responsibility retained?
3. Top tips for managing disputes
The state of integrated care systems 2024/25: delivering through change. This annual report on the state of integrated care systems (based on a survey of ICS leaders) examines systems’ progress, how they are responding to the changing policy landscape and their role in implementing the 10 Year Health Plan.
Strategic commissioning framework. The framework sets out what NHS England expects from integrated care boards (ICBs) in the strategic commissioner role, and what ICBs and providers can expect from NHS England, as part of a step-by-step guide with an up-to-date commissioning cycle. The framework will be followed by a complementary co-produced strategic commissioning development programme to identify and build the skills and capabilities needed within ICBs for successful strategic commissioning.
How we can help
If you wish to discuss any queries you may have around integrated care, please contact Anna Davies.
Mental Health
Publications/Guidance
The big mental health report 2025. This report finds that public attitudes towards mental health and people with mental health problems are getting worse, with more than one in ten unwilling to live next to someone who has been mentally unwell – even if they have since recovered. It warns that an increasingly negative public discourse about mental health, from politicians and in the media, risks undoing the progress in attitudes and stigma achieved in recent years.
Digitally supported monitoring in inpatient mental health: a case study from NHS mental health trusts. This case study explores how digital technology can be used to strengthen risk management, improve quality of care and drive greater efficiency in mental health inpatient facilities. The platform enables staff to carry out observations with greater accuracy and without disturbing patients’ sleep at night. Beyond observations, it provides continuous, objective data that supports clinical decision-making – helping staff judge when intervention is needed and how best to plan patient care.
Consultations
Improved safeguarding and protections for vulnerable people. Government to launch a consultation on Liberty Protection Safeguards to improve safeguarding for vulnerable people.
Cases
London NHS Trust v DT & Anor [2025] EWCOP 36. Best interests decision regarding DT and whether she should be moved to another country for the purpose of brain stem tests to determine whether she is dead.
KP (Termination of Pregnancy) [2025] EWCOP 35 (T3). Capacity and best interests decision concerning KP, a pregnant 19 year old diagnosed with cerebral palsy and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
London NHS Trust v DT Court of Protection | [2025] EWCOP 36 (T3) Consideration given by the court as to whether it was in the best interests of a patient to be repatriated to another country for the purposes of brain stem death testing to be carried out.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board v NN Court of Protection | [2024] EWCOP 61 (T3) The Court of Protection penalised a health authority in costs for its delay in seeking authorisation for a treatment plan in respect of a woman who lacked capacity to decide whether to undergo a termination of her pregnancy. The court emphasised the need for timely decision-making in termination cases and observed that the authority's legal team should become involved at an early stage to advise on whether court orders were needed, and what exactly the court should be asked to decide.
Bevan Brittan Updates
A resurrection of the Liberty Protection Safeguards?- Ruth Atkinson-Wilks
How we can help
We are experts in advising commissioners, providers and care co-ordinators on the relevant legal frameworks. We deal with complex issues such as deprivation of liberty, state involvement, use of CCTV monitoring, seclusion, physical restraint and covert medication. We can help providers with queries about admission and detention, consent to treatment, forensic service users, transfers, leave, discharge planning and hearings. We can advise commissioners on all matters concerning commissioning responsibility, liability and disputes. For more information click here
If you wish to discuss any mental health issues facing your organisation please contact Hannah Taylor or Simon Lindsay
Primary Care
Publications/Guidance
Delayed diagnosis of cancer: a thematic review of general practice indemnity claims. This thematic review identifies three key areas for improvement: optimising diagnostic processes; enhancing communication within consultations and across the healthcare system; and empowering patients through increased self-referral pathways and escalation mechanisms. The report emphasises that many general practice consultations are safe, with GPs referring people on urgent suspected cancer pathways in record numbers. The analysis covers a comparatively small number of cases where there were identified failures in the pathway.
How we can help
If you wish to discuss any issues in primary care then please contact Joanne Easterbrook.
Prison Health
Publications/Guidance
The health of people in prison, on probation and in the secure NHS estate in England. The Chief Medical Officer for England identifies areas of good practice and areas of risk, and recommends actions to improve health outcomes for this population.
How we can help
If you wish to discuss any issues in prison health then please contact Joanne Easterbrook.
Social Care
Publications/Guidance
The state of health care and adult social care in England 2024/25. The report looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, and highlights where care needs to improve.
Adult social care finance report, England: 2024 to 2025. Official statistics on adult social care finance in councils with adult social services responsibilities, including information on expenditure and income sources across both long and short term care.
Personal social services adult social care survey report, England: 2024 to 2025. Official statistics on the outcomes and experiences of users aged 18 and over in receipt of long-term adult social care services in England.
Short-term gain, long-term pain: the investment curbing crunch in social care. This short paper outlines the impact that shrinking provider budgets have on the long-term investment in the adult social care sector’s future, and the knock-on impact this has on increased year-on-year care costs for the future.
Restoring stability: practical measures for a pressured sector. This associated report highlights solutions that adult social care providers can implement in the here and now that will play some part in alleviating the increasing cost pressures on social care providers.
The state of bring your own device (BYOD) in the adult social care sector. Bring your own device (BYOD) approaches (where care staff use their own phones or tablets for work) have become increasingly popular in the adult social care sector as they allow organisations to reduce the costs associated with providing staff with devices. This research report explores the risks associated with the current state, and recommends improvements measures to begin to address the risks.
Bevan Brittan Updates
CQC ‘Better regulation’ Consultation – Assessment Frameworks and Ratings Decisions
How we can help
For ways in which we can help with Social Care issues click here.
If you wish to discuss any queries you may have around social care please contact Claire Bentley.
General
Publications/Guidance
Major NHS update brings menopause into routine health checks. Menopause advice will be added to free health checks to help millions of women get the care they need.
Health boost for Britain's forces as New NHS Programme Launches. Government rolls out new training programme to help NHS staff across England give the Armed Forces community the personalised care they deserve.
NHS prescription charges in England. The cost of an NHS prescription, who is entitled to free prescriptions in England and how to get help with prescription costs.
NHS charges. The briefing provides information on NHS charges and looks at proposed changes to the charging regime.
NHS key statistics: England. Summary of NHS demand, performance, backlogs, and capacity of services in England. It covers A&E waiting times, hospital waiting lists, cancer waiting times, ambulance response times, staffing levels including doctors and nurses, vacancies, and more.
Carbon net zero by 2040: is the NHS on track? Back in 2020, the NHS became the first national health system to commit to becoming carbon net zero. Emma Wills considers what has been achieved so far and what needs to happen to meet the goal.
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