We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock spoke to healthcare professionals at the Royal Society of Medicine.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
The government has published a report of an independent review of the test for making sure senior NHS leaders are fit for their posts.
Mothers and new babies will be offered better support as part of plans designed to make the NHS one of the best places in the world to give birth.
The review will focus on patients who take multiple medicines, to ensure patients are receiving the most appropriate treatment for their needs.
13 trusts will be the first to receive a share of £78 million to support electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) to improve patient safety.
Health secretary Matt Hancock addresses the Patient Safety Learning Conference at The King's Fund, London.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt explains the thinking behind the Health Service Safety Investigations Bill, and recent steps to improve patient safety.
The government announced reforms to payments supporting people who received infected blood during NHS treatment in the 1970s and 1980s.
Proposals will give the Health Service Safety Investigations Body power to investigate serious patient safety incidents.
Jeremy Hunt announces measures to improve sepsis identification, tracking and prevention.
Plans to strengthen NHS and social care organisations against cyber attacks and protect patient data.
NHS whistleblowers will be better protected by new rules that prohibit discrimination against them if they seek re-employment in the NHS.
Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, talks about mental health service improvements and maintaining NHS performance standards.
Barcodes are being used to trace NHS patients and their treatments, manage medical supplies and monitor the effectiveness of equipment.
Plans to prevent hospital infections include more money for hospitals who reduce infection rates and publishing E. coli rates by local area.
Jeremy Hunt on the Care Quality Commission's report into the way NHS trusts review and investigate the deaths of patients in England.
The "Our Chance" campaign aims to maximise women's chances of having safer pregnancies.
New measures to make giving birth safer, including maternity safety funding and publishing maternity ratings, have been announced.
A review into the sports supplement industry ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympic games shows the sport supplement industry is improving.
HSIB Expert Advisory Group makes recommendations for improving safety investigations across healthcare.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).