A £2bn investment in digitisation is central to cutting costs and increasing access to the National Health Service, according to the government’s latest announcement. The government’s plan for digital ...

A series of systemic failures at the NHS and Department of Health exposed the service to serious levels of cyber-risk, allowing WannaCry to disrupt over a third of trusts in England with thousands of ...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has expedited the merger of NHS England and NHS Digital in order to create a more streamlined technology and support body. The merger of the ...

The GP records of England’s 61 million NHS users are set to be gathered into a new database which third parties will be able to access. The new data-sharing scheme, called General Practice Data for ...

Image: Death of the NHS (after David). Rights: Peter BB Davis. Imagine for a moment that you are the newly re-elected Conservative Prime Minister, and you want to launch an inquiry into whether the ...

A new statutory duty of candour making health bosses legally accountable for responding to concerns about patient safety could also be introduced. Sign Up and be kept in the loop each and every day ...

A study by University College London finds that one in ten NHS operations in England are cancelled within 24 hours ...

Almost all NHS trusts are missing a major cancer target, with some of the worst performers seeing only around half of patients on time, data shows. Figures analysed by the Press Association for 2025 ...

Far more people will survive cancer in the coming years, the Government has pledged, as it published a new 10-year plan to tackle the disease. The national cancer plan, published in full on Wednesday, ...

A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UK's National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, numerous ...