According to NHS statistics, of the nearly 59,000 people waiting for specialist eye care as of December 2024, only two-thirds (66.8 per cent) have been waiting less than the 18-week target set by ...

It’s a challenging environment in which to be a leader in the NHS. The need to lead collaboration between organisations, while facing staff reductions and managing constant change, is not easy. PCC’s ...

NHS eye care is an important primary care service. Contractual arrangements need not only to be in place but also effectively managed. Primary eye care gives rise to several commissioning and ...

Directions 2024 (PCDs) were published in May 2024. Twelve months on, this three-hour facilitated workshop will review the key changes introduced by the new PCDs and the practical implications on local ...

NHS England has published Children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs and disability (SEND) oral and sight testing service specifications. PCC can help integrated care boards to ...

On 1 April 2023 the National Living Wage (NLW) increased from £9.50 to £10.42 per hour for workers aged 23 and over. This report measures pay rates in the adult social care sector as at December 2023, ...

As GP partners approach retirement several critical factors need to be considered, particularly concerning their premises, including the implications this may have for the ownership or lease of their ...

This research finds that people admitted to mental health trusts have better access to treatment for smoking than they did five years ago but are being let down by a failure to create smokefree care ...

NHS England (NHSE) published a plan to recover elective and cancer care over the three years up to March 2025. This plan included changes to how care is provided through three transformation ...

It’s not a model of care; it’s three There’s quite a bit of discussion at the moment about a new model of care for general practice. But the discussion around these “models” tends to be around ...

The article of the week, from BW Healthcare Surveyors, offers top tips for GP practices to review the current utilisation of their premises to ensure they are receiving the appropriate notional rent ...

NHS England's data for research and development programme has selected Prostate Progress, a prostate cancer Research project, as a driver project to help tackle the second leading cause of cancer ...