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The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that Dr Jenny Harries OBE will be the new Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England.
A new independent investigation into the serious incidents at Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust between 2010 and 2014 will review fresh evidence of substandard care.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock spoke at the East London Foundation Trust on the launch of the NHS People Plan.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
The government has launched proposals to make pensions more flexible for senior clinicians delivering frontline care.
New guidance allows NHS trusts to apply to own buildings on their estate where it will help speed up improvements to frontline services.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care spoke at the King's Fund Digital Health and Care Congress to launch the new GP IT Futures contract.
The measures include a new working group for learning disabilities and autism, and funding specialist advocates to review the care of patients in segregation or long-term seclusion.
The new treatment aid will allow surgeons to identify areas of the brain affected by cancer more accurately, helping up to 2,000 patients a year.
Adults who are sleeping rough and living with mental illness and substance misuse will benefit from £1.9 million funding to improve their access to vital healthcare.
PHE is awarding Department of Health and Social Care funding of £1.9 million to councils to test ways to improve rough sleepers' access to health services.
Health Minister Nicola Blackwood spoke at the ABPI Annual Conference & Dinner 2019: Enhancing a Life Sciences Powerhouse in a Post-Brexit World.
Accelerating access to treatments and services is being improved so that more patients can benefit.
All NHS organisations will get the fastest broadband available, which will improve the range and quality of digital healthcare services offered to patients.
Thousands of victims of the tragedy will receive increased financial support from the infected blood support scheme in England.
Matt Hancock spoke about tackling the gender pay gap in medicine at the Royal College of Physicians' annual conference.
The Health and Social Care Secretary spoke at the Northern Powerhouse Health Innovation Conference in Manchester.
The Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee have begun discussions for the contractual framework for 2019 to 2020 and beyond.
The NHS-funded nursing care standard rate is being increased to £165.56 from April 2019.
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock's speech at The Royal Society of Medicine event 'Medical apps: mainstreaming innovation'.
Digital and data specialists will help patients, clinicians and carers benefit from better technology.
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