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The changes will allow pharmacists to spend more time with patients, levelling the playing field between smaller pharmacies and larger chains.

• Updated: 13 May 2024

The Health and Social Care Secretary, Victoria Atkins, spoke at the Nuffield Trust Summit 2024 about the Budget and NHS productivity.

• Updated: 7 March 2024

ACE worked with managers at Kettering General Hospital to create a proof of concept which allows beds to be allocated more efficiently.

• Updated: 12 October 2023

New tool uses artificial intelligence to assess hospital data and help predict patients at risk of becoming long stayers, with resulting negative implications.

• Updated: 4 September 2023

Funding aims to relieve pressures on hospitals and help cut waiting lists, one of the government’s top 5 priorities.

• Updated: 15 August 2023

Thirteen new community diagnostic centres are opening across the country to deliver more than 742,000 additional scans, tests and checks a year.

• Updated: 4 August 2023

Funding by the Crown Commercial Service has helped NHS procurement teams identify millions in potential savings.

• Updated: 26 July 2023

Nearly 50 project leaders graduated this week from Cranfield School of Management - thanks to the support of New Hospital Programme.

• Updated: 21 June 2023

The facilities will help cut urgent and emergency care waiting times for tens of thousands of patients across the country

• Updated: 13 June 2023

Patients will be given more choice and greater control over their own care, including through the NHS App.

• Updated: 25 May 2023

Tens of thousands of elderly and vulnerable people will receive tailored support at home as part of a new NHS plan to improve waiting times for emergency care.

• Updated: 30 January 2023

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Steve Barclay, updated Parliament on what the government is doing to help the NHS deal with immediate winter pressures.

• Updated: 9 January 2023

The NHS will buy thousands of extra beds in care homes and other settings to help discharge more patients to free up hospital beds.

• Updated: 9 January 2023

The government is setting up an Elective Recovery Taskforce to help the NHS deliver on waiting list targets, bringing together a range of healthcare experts.

• Updated: 7 December 2022

Speech by Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay at the Spectator Health Summit in London.

• Updated: 28 November 2022

Patients will have better choice of what GP practice they visit after data showing appointment waiting times is published for the first time today.

• Updated: 24 November 2022

Review will explore how best to cut through red tape and boost efficiency, financial accountability and autonomy, with fewer national targets.

• Updated: 18 November 2022

Record numbers of staff are working in the NHS, latest provisional data published by NHS Digital shows.

• Updated: 27 October 2022

Health and Social Care Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, Thérèse Coffey, will set out 'Our plan for patients' so patients receive easier access to NHS and social care this winter and next.

• Updated: 21 September 2022

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the Health and Social Care Secretary sets out his plans for NHS reform.

• Updated: 8 March 2022