Under current best practice guidelines, patients should receive an MRI and biopsy within 7 days of an urgent GP referral for suspected prostate cancer but depending on the capacity of radiologists ...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has described the PCREF as “the single most important lever we have to reduce racial disparities in mental health’’. Embedding its principles into the ...

The strategic update for health and care leaders. This issue of The Month is also available to download as a PDF.

An innovative 15-minute blood test which can fast-track the diagnosis of children with potentially life-threatening conditions is being trialled by the NHS this winter.

For patients, every encounter is a test not just of the healthcare system, but of whether they are believed and respected.

“Today’s publication – the product of intensive work over the summer by the NHS leadership community – resets how the NHS works, aligns incentives to delivering more care and creates a clear route map ...

The government’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, and the former National Medical Director at NHS England, Professor Stephen Powis, have led the Medical Training Review to understand ...

Therapeutic play has profound impacts on children’s healthcare experiences and outcomes. Starlight’s report on Health Play ...

And by resetting the foundations of the NHS, it will unleash the ambition of local teams to help drive the strategic shifts set out in the 10 Year Health Plan – creating the platform for NHS boards ...

The schematic summarises the guidance outlined in Research matters: enabling and sustaining a research-positive culture for ...

This diagnostic report sets out the current state of medical training and identifies 11 recommendations, including four key priorities: making training more flexible, building on excellence beyond ...

Postgraduate medical education (PGME) is the critical bridge between medical school and independent practice. In the UK and globally, this training has undergone incremental change over the past ...