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The Health and Social Care Secretary, Victoria Atkins, spoke at the Nuffield Trust Summit 2024 about the Budget and NHS productivity.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
ACE worked with managers at Kettering General Hospital to create a proof of concept which allows beds to be allocated more efficiently.
New tool uses artificial intelligence to assess hospital data and help predict patients at risk of becoming long stayers, with resulting negative implications.
Funding aims to relieve pressures on hospitals and help cut waiting lists, one of the government’s top 5 priorities.
Thirteen new community diagnostic centres are opening across the country to deliver more than 742,000 additional scans, tests and checks a year.
Funding by the Crown Commercial Service has helped NHS procurement teams identify millions in potential savings.
Nearly 50 project leaders graduated this week from Cranfield School of Management - thanks to the support of New Hospital Programme.
The facilities will help cut urgent and emergency care waiting times for tens of thousands of patients across the country
Patients will be given more choice and greater control over their own care, including through the NHS App.
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.
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.
The NHS will buy thousands of extra beds in care homes and other settings to help discharge more patients to free up hospital beds.
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.
Speech by Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay at the Spectator Health Summit in London.
Patients will have better choice of what GP practice they visit after data showing appointment waiting times is published for the first time today.
Review will explore how best to cut through red tape and boost efficiency, financial accountability and autonomy, with fewer national targets.
Record numbers of staff are working in the NHS, latest provisional data published by NHS Digital shows.
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.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the Health and Social Care Secretary sets out his plans for NHS reform.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
A statement in the House of Commons from Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid on the NHS Delivery Plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog.
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