A letter has been published detailing the planned expansion of the Shingles vaccination programme to include all those who are severely immunosuppressed and aged 18-49 years old from 1 September…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is taking steps to rebuild effective and trusted regulation following concerns raised across the health and care sectors. As part of this work, it is…
The Data Provision Notice (DPN) for OpenSAFELY now permits expansion beyond COVID-19-related analyses. The opt-in functionality for EMIS was rolled out this week. SystmOne already has this functionality in place.…
Due to the recent measles outbreaks, GP practices are permitted to administer MMR vaccines to their eligible staff who are registered with another practice under INT (immediately necessary treatment). This…
The 2025/26 GP vaccination campaign is focused on HPV catch-up for 14-24-year-olds (inclusive). This aims to address declines, reduce variation in uptake and subsequent cancer prevalence. Practices are asked to:…
The NHS 10-year plan was published last week. This plan will likely land well with the public promising same day access, genomic profiling and a single patient record while also…
The 2025 GP Patient Survey results, which includes information on patient experience of general practice has been published today. The results of the survey show improvements in patients’ experience of…
Last month we launched the GP Premises Survey 2025. We’re calling on all practice managers and partners across England to take part. Please help us advocate for better premises and…
This week, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recommended that women and people with a cervix who never or rarely attend their routine cervical screening appointments can be offered a HPV…
In July 2025, NHS England will launch a national RSV invitation campaign to support uptake of the vaccine. Invitations will be sent to unvaccinated individuals: who were aged 75-79 on…
On 10 June, Minister Dalton announced the implementation of extended screening intervals for cervical screening participants. From 1 July 2025, most women aged 25-49 who test negative for HPV – meaning they…
This guidance has been written by the NWAFT Haematology team to support primary care. Click on the link below to download the guidance! The guidance is useful to consider how…