News and communications

New patient premium starts to offer dentists cash incentives to take on new NHS patients.

• Updated: 1 March 2024

Baby loss certificates for parents who experienced a loss of pregnancy before 24 weeks are now available for application from 9am today (22 February 2024).

• Updated: 22 February 2024

New proposals would give the General Dental Council powers to provisionally register dentists trained overseas to start delivering care as quickly as possible.

• Updated: 16 February 2024

The Healthcare Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has published its terms of reference in a bid to help improve patient, staff and community safety.

• Updated: 30 January 2024

Health and Social Care Secretary Victoria Atkins has ordered a special review into Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust which treated Valdo Calocane.

• Updated: 29 January 2024

Disposable vapes will be banned in the UK as part of ambitious government plans to tackle the rise in youth vaping and protect children’s health.

• Updated: 28 January 2024

Half a million women in England have accessed cheaper HRT - the main treatment for negative menopause symptoms - since last April.

• Updated: 24 January 2024

The Health and Social Care Secretary, Victoria Atkins, spoke at the Woman's Health Summit to update on the Women's Health Strategy 2024 priorities.

• Updated: 17 January 2024

Problem periods, women’s health research and support for domestic and sexual abuse victims are among the government’s priorities.

• Updated: 17 January 2024

The new safety measures being introduced in UK are for male and female patients

• Updated: 15 January 2024

A call for evidence will collate feedback from across the health sector on the merits of a separate pay structure.

• Updated: 11 January 2024

The government outlined plans to improve the career prospects of the domestic care workforce through training, qualifications and a clearer, care career path.

• Updated: 10 January 2024

Government to take forward UK National Screening Committee recommendation on use of digital images to make it easier to identify cancer and speed up diagnosis.

• Updated: 5 January 2024

A new research project has been announced to evaluate an expansion of the hugely successful HIV opt-out testing programme to new sites across England.

• Updated: 3 January 2024

NHS patients benefit from 6 million more checks at centres across England.

• Updated: 2 January 2024

ACCIA is recruiting for volunteers to join its scoring panel for the 2024 national Clinical Impact Awards round.

• Updated: 29 December 2023

The government and the British Medical Association (BMA) have reached an agreement to put an offer to specialist, associate specialist and speciality doctors.

• Updated: 18 December 2023

New measures to help protect the public and support bereaved families will be introduced in a revamp of how deaths are certified.

• Updated: 14 December 2023

The latest ACCIA annual report highlights some improved diversity and equality following 2022 reforms to the National Clinical Impact Awards.

• Updated: 11 December 2023

Government to lay legislation this week to begin process of regulating physician associates and anaesthesia associates through the General Medical Council (GMC).

• Updated: 11 December 2023