Corridor care is a significant patient safety and experience issue; the NHS is committed to reducing this activity in hospitals across England in both emergency departments and inpatient wards.

We all know that corridor care is unacceptable; it creates an exceptionally poor experience for patients – particularly older patients – and their loved ones, generates low morale for our staff, and ...

Do count it as corridor care if the patient is waiting for more than 45 minutes outside of a bedspace or cubicle, with or without privacy and dignity, and / or is unsafe. Do count this as corridor ...

This report, produced by Solutions Research and NHS England, shares national insights from qualitative thematic analysis of written responses to the NHS Patient Survey Programme, coordinated by the ...

The Approved Costing Guidance explains how NHS trusts should cost at patient level using the costing standards and then submit cost data for the financial year 2025/26 using the National Cost ...

This summary of changes will help costing practitioners and other stakeholders implement the 2026 National Cost Collection. It does not replace a full and proper review of all the documentation. It ...

A new £75 payment will replace the current 1.2 UDAs for unscheduled care. For providers to whom the 8.2% applies, this will be credited in 2 parts: a £15 fixed credit per required course of treatment ...

Nearly 1 in 4 people have missed an NHS appointment because they forgot or arrived too late, according to a new survey. The NHS has launched a new campaign urging people to turn on ‘push alerts’ from ...

Commissioning accountability and responsibility for all ‘highly’ specialised services, high secure mental health services and a small number of specialised services will transfer to DHSC. The national ...

Martha’s Rule has now been included in the NHS Standard Contract. Service Condition 33: Patient Safety of the NHS Standard Contract 2026/27 requires all NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts to ...

Figures out today show that more than 1.2million patients were handed over (1,234,731) to A&Es by ambulances so far this winter. This is the highest since the same period in 2021/22, and almost 52,000 ...

NHS England » Tens of thousands with vitiligo to be offered “life-changing” new cream on NHS to restore skin colour ...