7 new community diagnostic centres (CDCs) will open to help improve the Covid backlogs, diagnose patients more quickly and meet future demands on the NHS, the Health and Social Care Secretary has confirmed this week.

On Thursday, the next phase of the inquiry into the UK’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic began. It will scrutinise decisions made by key players during the pandemic, such as then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Regular asymptomatic testing for COVID-19 in all remaining settings in England will be paused from 31 August, as COVID-19 cases continue to fall.

In this piece, we hear from Andy Howlett, Director of Strategy – Community Diagnostic Centres at InHealth, about what a day in his life looks like.

As summer draws to a close, we can take a look back at all of the important NIHR events that have occurred in the last few months.

The Government has written to the European Commission to request consultations on finalising the UK’s participation in EU Programmes.

There are two contenders left in the race to become the UK’s next Prime Minister, each have their own political record, ambitions and views on future policy strategies. Reacting to the pressures and challenges being faced by the NHS, and wider health sector in the UK, will be of crucial importance on the next PM’s task list. Nearly 7 million patients are now awaiting procedures in the UK, many people are living with undiagnosed conditions after the pandemic’s disruption to scre...

We want to again remind members to move to the Customs Declaration Service ASAP. If you do not, you will not be able to import goods into the UK from 1‌‌‌ ‌‌‌October 2022. It takes a number of weeks to move across to the new service, so you should sign-up immediately if you have not already.Even if you use a customs agent to help you with customs declarations, there are still actions you need to take. You need to: Subscribe to the Customs Declaration ...

A major target established in the NHS Elective Recovery Plan has virtually been reached as the number of patients waiting two years or more for care has been cut significantly.This first step in the plan was focused on those patients waiting two years or more by the end of July, except where they chose to wait longer, did not want to travel to be seen faster, or for very complex cases requiring specialist treatment.There were more than 22,500 people who had been waiting two years or more at the ...

The Government regrets that the UK’s association to Horizon Europe has not yet been formalised as a result of disagreements related to the NI Protocol and recognises the huge toll that this has placed on the UK’s research and business community. To mitigate the impact of the uncertainty, the Government developed the Horizon Europe guarantee in November 2021 – which ensures funding to researchers and innovators unable to receive their Horizon Europe funding while the U...