Under a 10-year plan, published last month, health officials said the NHS in England needed to undergo a radical shift, away ...

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NHS numbers will be used in a pilot programme to share information about children between professionals in order to safeguard ...

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The Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad – a partnership between NHS England, the Government and BioNTech – has already helped refer ...

Early withdrawal of a treatment for patients with a rare kidney disease is possible without relapse, safer for patients and ...

Patients in England with head and neck cancer will be fast-tracked onto a clinical trial for a "potentially transformative" ...

The pilot will test whether a child’s NHS number could be successfully used as a “unique identifier” to follow them in their ...

A mum whose daughter died at just 20 hours old after she was left on her own during labour has said major changes are needed ...

Cancer survival has doubled in the past half a century, but around 167,000 people still die of the disease in the UK every ...

Patients with advanced head and neck cancers in England will be fast-tracked into a trial of a new cancer vaccine, as the NHS expands its world-leading trial ‘match-making’ service. The ...