Managing demand in general practice isn’t easy, there have been many initiatives to help, but what will work may vary from area to area. PCC’s associate Dr Steven Laitner suggests three streams of ...

NHS England has published Children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs and disability (SEND) oral and sight testing service specifications. PCC can help integrated care boards to ...

NHS eye care is an important primary care service. Contractual arrangements need not only to be in place but also effectively managed. Primary eye care gives rise to several commissioning and ...

Directions 2024 (PCDs) were published in May 2024. Twelve months on, this three-hour facilitated workshop will review the key changes introduced by the new PCDs and the practical implications on local ...

Tighter and tougher protections to protect children and communities from illicit tobacco and vapes have been unveiled as the Tobacco and Vapes Bill moves closer to creating a smokefree UK. A £10 ...

On 1 April 2023 the National Living Wage (NLW) increased from £9.50 to £10.42 per hour for workers aged 23 and over. This report measures pay rates in the adult social care sector as at December 2023, ...

As GP partners approach retirement several critical factors need to be considered, particularly concerning their premises, including the implications this may have for the ownership or lease of their ...

This research finds that people admitted to mental health trusts have better access to treatment for smoking than they did five years ago but are being let down by a failure to create smokefree care ...

NHS England (NHSE) published a plan to recover elective and cancer care over the three years up to March 2025. This plan included changes to how care is provided through three transformation ...

The article of the week, from BW Healthcare Surveyors, offers top tips for GP practices to review the current utilisation of their premises to ensure they are receiving the appropriate notional rent ...

NHS England's data for research and development programme has selected Prostate Progress, a prostate cancer Research project, as a driver project to help tackle the second leading cause of cancer ...

The results of a survey by the NHS Confederation's Community Network show the scale of underinvestment in NHS community services. Views of leaders in the community health services sector on the ...