Archived government news
December 2024
Press release: Junk food ad ban legislation progresses to curb childhood ob… Tuesday, 03 December 2024
Press release: Biggest ever conversation about the NHS comes to East of Eng… Sunday, 01 December 2024
Press release: South East of England has its say on the future of the NHS Sunday, 01 December 2024
November 2024
Press release: Landmark genetics partnership to probe causes of cancer and … Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Corporate report: Consolidated NHS provider accounts: annual report and acc… Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Press release: MPs to vote on landmark smoking ban to stop cycle of addicti… Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Press release: MPs to vote on landmark smoking ban to stop cycle of addicti… Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Promotional material: Monitoring your medium abdominal aortic aneurysm Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Promotional material: Screening results: large abdominal aortic aneurysm Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Promotional material: Monitoring your small abdominal aortic aneurysm Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Official Statistics: NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care … Thursday, 14 November 2024
Official Statistics: National Wheelchair Data Collection Quarterly Publicat… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Official Statistics: Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental I… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Official Statistics: NHS Cancelled Elective Operations, Q2 2024/25 Thursday, 14 November 2024
Official Statistics: Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection (IUC … Thursday, 14 November 2024
Official Statistics: Waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patie… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Official Statistics: A&E attendances and emergency admissions for October 2… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: Ambulance Quality Indicators Clinical Outco… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: Ambulance Quality Indicators Systems Indica… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Accredited official statistics: Referral to treatment waiting times statist… Thursday, 14 November 2024
Guidance: Breast screening: interval cancers Monday, 11 November 2024
Press release: Secretary of State pledges to contain NHS agency spend Monday, 11 November 2024
Guidance: Surveillance and audiological referral guidelines Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Guidance: Newborn blood spot screening: laboratory guide for IMDs Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Form: Data submission template: FASP screening laboratories Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Form: Data submission template: child health information services Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Form: Data submission template: maternity service Wednesday, 06 November 2024
Press release: Better Care for Mental Health Patients Under Major Reforms Wednesday, 06 November 2024
October 2024
Official Statistics: Diagnostic imaging dataset for June 2024 Thursday, 31 October 2024
Guidance: Congenital heart disease: information for parents Friday, 25 October 2024
Promotional material: Breast screening: helping women decide Thursday, 24 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: collection of demographic information Thursday, 17 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: national data reporting specifications Thursday, 17 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: competencies for administrative staff Thursday, 17 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: recovery test sets for red flagged grader… Thursday, 17 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: slit lamp biomicroscopy examiner framewor… Thursday, 17 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: assuring the quality of grading Thursday, 17 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: use and transfer of patient information Thursday, 17 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: test and training participation Thursday, 17 October 2024
Guidance: Newborn and infant physical examination: programme handbook Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: surveillance pathways Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Correspondence: Assisted dying bill debate: advice to doctors Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Corporate report: NHS England: annual report and accounts 2023 to 2024 Tuesday, 15 October 2024
Guidance: Opting out of breast screening Monday, 14 October 2024
Guidance: Opting out of the NHS population screening programmes Monday, 14 October 2024
Guidance: Patient confidentiality in NHS population screening programmes Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Managing safety incidents in NHS screening programmes Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: ideas for improving access and uptake Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: acceptable HPV test systems Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening programme: standards Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: programme specific operating model Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening: ISOSS HIV report 2021 Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: SCT screening: handbook for antenatal laboratories Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening programme: standards Thursday, 10 October 2024
Form: Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening: antenatal lab data form Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Newborn and infant physical examination screening: standards Thursday, 10 October 2024
Guidance: Newborn hearing screening programme: standards Wednesday, 09 October 2024
Guidance: Cystic fibrosis: screening laboratory handbook Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Guidance: Laboratory guide to screening for CHT in the UK Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Guidance: Newborn blood spot screening: standards Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Guidance: Status codes for NHS newborn blood spot (NBS) screening programme Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Guidance: Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening: standards Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Guidance: Newborn and infant physical examination: programme handbook Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening programme: standards Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Guidance: AAA screening: competence assessment and logbook Monday, 07 October 2024
Guidance: AAA screening: ultrasound image quality guidance Monday, 07 October 2024
Guidance: AAA screening: validate annual pathway standards Monday, 07 October 2024
Promotional material: Making an informed choice about AAA screening Monday, 07 October 2024
Guidance: Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: programme specific operating… Monday, 07 October 2024
Guidance: Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme: standards Monday, 07 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: programme specific operating model Friday, 04 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: having a CT colonography (CTC) scan Friday, 04 October 2024
Promotional material: Bowel cancer screening: easy guide Friday, 04 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: specialist screening practitioner Friday, 04 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: education and training Friday, 04 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: guidelines for colonoscopy Friday, 04 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: care pathway Friday, 04 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: an easy guide to having a CTC scan Friday, 04 October 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: an easy guide to having a colonoscopy Friday, 04 October 2024
Promotional material: Diabetic eye screening: description in brief Thursday, 03 October 2024
Promotional material: Bowel cancer screening kit: how to use Wednesday, 02 October 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening programme: standards Tuesday, 01 October 2024
Promotional material: Screening results: large abdominal aortic aneurysm Tuesday, 01 October 2024
Guidance: AAA screening: waiting times standards Tuesday, 01 October 2024
Guidance: AAA screening: protocol for reporting deaths Tuesday, 01 October 2024
Guidance: AAA screening: management of non-visualised aortas Tuesday, 01 October 2024
Closed call for evidence: Fourth health and climate adaptation report: call… Tuesday, 01 October 2024
Promotional material: Diabetic eye screening: description in brief Tuesday, 01 October 2024
September 2024
Promotional material: Bowel cancer screening kit: how to use Monday, 30 September 2024
Promotional material: Cervical screening: leaflet for women considering scr… Monday, 30 September 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: audit schedule Friday, 27 September 2024
Promotional material: Diabetic eye screening: slit lamp examination Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening programme: standards Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: patients who drive to appointments Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: approved cameras and settings Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: when images cannot be taken or are inadeq… Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: managing patients not on the register Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening programme: failsafe procedures Friday, 27 September 2024
Promotional material: Breast screening: high risk women Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Breast screening: screening office management Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Breast screening: programme specific operating model Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: dynamic spectral imaging system (DySIS) Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: histopathology reporting handbook Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: programme and colposcopy management Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: cytology improvement guide Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: guidelines on the content of letters and leaf… Friday, 27 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: cytology samples external quality assessment Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: pathway for acceptance of new HPV tests Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: gynaecological cytopathology EQA scheme Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: accepting samples in laboratories Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: call and recall administration best practice Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: auditing procedures Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: disclosure of audit results toolkit Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: cytology reporting failsafe (primary HPV) Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: care pathway Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: dynamic spectral imaging system (DySIS) Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: histopathology reporting handbook Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: laboratory HPV testing and cytology services Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: laboratory testing for human papillomavirus Thursday, 26 September 2024
Official Statistics: Diagnostic imaging dataset for May 2024 Thursday, 26 September 2024
Official Statistics: Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: standards report … Thursday, 26 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: laboratory HPV testing and cytology services Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: histopathology reporting handbook Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: programme and colposcopy management Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: histopathology reporting handbook Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Guidance: SCT screening: handbook for antenatal laboratories Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Guidance: AAA screening: how we use personal information Friday, 20 September 2024
Research: Q3 (1 Oct to 31 Dec 2023) ANNB and YPA screening KPI data Thursday, 19 September 2024
Official Statistics: A&E attendances and emergency admissions for August 20… Thursday, 12 September 2024
Accredited official statistics: Ambulance Quality Indicators Clinical Outco… Thursday, 12 September 2024
Accredited official statistics: Referral to treatment waiting times statist… Thursday, 12 September 2024
Official Statistics: Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection (IUC … Thursday, 12 September 2024
Accredited official statistics: Diagnostic waiting times and activity for J… Thursday, 12 September 2024
Accredited official statistics: Ambulance Quality Indicators Systems Indica… Thursday, 12 September 2024
Official Statistics: Mixed Sex Accommodation breaches for July 2024 Thursday, 12 September 2024
Guidance: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): vaccination for older adults Wednesday, 04 September 2024
NDG and NHS England issue joint statement about NHS Data Security and Prote… Tuesday, 03 September 2024
August 2024
Press release: Over 130,000 people to benefit from life-saving health check… Thursday, 29 August 2024
Official Statistics: Bed availability and occupancy data for Q1 2024/25 Thursday, 22 August 2024
Official Statistics: Diagnostic imaging dataset for April 2024 Thursday, 22 August 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: retinal image grading criteria Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: standards data report 2022 to 2023 Friday, 16 August 2024
Open call for evidence: Fourth health and climate adaptation report: call f… Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Guidance: AAA screening: process to submit KPI data Friday, 09 August 2024
Official Statistics: NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care … Thursday, 08 August 2024
Official Statistics: Physical Health Checks for People with Severe Mental I… Thursday, 08 August 2024
Accredited official statistics: Referral to treatment waiting times statist… Thursday, 08 August 2024
Official Statistics: NHS Cancelled Elective Operations, Q1 2024/25 Thursday, 08 August 2024
Official Statistics: National Wheelchair Data Collection Quarterly Publicat… Thursday, 08 August 2024
Form: Data submission template: maternity service Monday, 05 August 2024
Form: Data submission template: child health information services Monday, 05 August 2024
Form: Data submission template: FASP screening laboratories Monday, 05 August 2024
July 2024
Press release: Over 1,000 more GPs to be recruited this year Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Press release: Health and Social Care Secretary visits hospital staff in Ep… Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Press release: Over 1,000 more GPs to be recruited this year Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Guidance: Newborn Blood Spot Laboratory Annual Standards/Condition Specific… Friday, 26 July 2024
Guidance: Fetal anomaly screening programme (FASP) screening laboratory ann… Friday, 26 July 2024
Promotional material: Cervical screening: colposcopy Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Promotional material: Bowel cancer screening: benefits and risks Monday, 22 July 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: cohort management Thursday, 18 July 2024
Official Statistics: 2023 National Cancer Patient Experience Survey results Thursday, 18 July 2024
Official Statistics: Diagnostic imaging dataset for March 2024 Thursday, 18 July 2024
Guidance: Down’s syndrome screening quality assurance support service: repo… Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Guidance: Down’s syndrome screening quality assurance support service Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Guidance: Sickle cell and thalassaemia high/low prevalence laboratory retur… Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Guidance: Newborn Blood Spot Laboratory Annual Standards/Condition Specific… Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Guidance: Newborn blood spot child health records department (CHRD) annual … Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Research: Bowel Cancer Screening: Annual Report 2021 to 2022 Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Official Statistics: Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection (IUC … Thursday, 11 July 2024
Official Statistics: GP Patient Survey results 2024 Thursday, 11 July 2024
Official Statistics: Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection (IUC … Thursday, 11 July 2024
Accredited official statistics: Referral to treatment waiting times statist… Thursday, 11 July 2024
Official Statistics: Mixed Sex Accommodation breaches for May 2024 Thursday, 11 July 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening pathways: patient, grading, referral, surv… Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Guidance: NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP): programme overview Monday, 08 July 2024
Guidance: Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening (IDPS): programme over… Monday, 08 July 2024
Guidance: Sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening: programme overview Monday, 08 July 2024
Guidance: Newborn blood spot screening: programme overview Monday, 08 July 2024
Guidance: Newborn hearing screening: programme overview Monday, 08 July 2024
Promotional material: Cervical screening: leaflet for women considering scr… Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Guidance: Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB) Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Promotional material: Diabetic eye screening: description in brief Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Promotional material: Breast screening: helping women decide Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Promotional material: Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: invitation leafl… Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Promotional material: Bowel cancer screening: benefits and risks Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Guidance: Antenatal maternity services annual standards return 2023 to 24 Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Guidance: Breast screening: programme specific operating model Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Guidance: Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: programme specific operating… Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Guidance: Antenatal and newborn screening: programme specific operating mod… Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Guidance: Bowel cancer screening: programme specific operating model Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: programme specific operating model Wednesday, 03 July 2024
Guidance: Newborn Blood Spot Laboratory Annual Standards/Condition Specific… Tuesday, 02 July 2024
June 2024
Research: Annual (April 2022 to March 2023) ANNB and YPA Screening KPI Data Thursday, 27 June 2024
Research: Q3 (1 Oct to 31 Dec 2023) ANNB and YPA screening KPI data Thursday, 27 June 2024
Guidance: Newborn Blood Spot Laboratory Annual Standards/Condition Specific… Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Guidance: Newborn blood spot child health records department (CHRD) annual … Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Guidance: Sickle cell and thalassaemia high/low prevalence laboratory retur… Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Guidance: Fetal anomaly screening programme (FASP) screening laboratory ann… Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Guidance: Fetal anomaly screening programme (FASP) diagnostic laboratory an… Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Promotional material: Cervical screening: an easy guide Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Correspondence: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination programmes le… Sunday, 23 June 2024
Promotional material: Bowel cancer screening: benefits and risks Friday, 21 June 2024
Official Statistics: Diagnostic imaging dataset for February 2024 Thursday, 20 June 2024
Promotional material: Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: invitation leafl… Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: invitations Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: invitations Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: ideas for improving access and uptake Thursday, 13 June 2024
Guidance: NHS Cervical Screening Programme – Good practice guidance for sam… Thursday, 13 June 2024
Official Statistics: Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection (IUC … Thursday, 13 June 2024
Accredited official statistics: Referral to treatment waiting times statist… Thursday, 13 June 2024
Accredited official statistics: Ambulance Quality Indicators Systems Indica… Thursday, 13 June 2024
Official Statistics: Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection (IUC … Thursday, 13 June 2024
Official Statistics: Mixed Sex Accommodation breaches for April 2024 Thursday, 13 June 2024
May 2024
Guidance: Newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) operational guidance Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Correspondence: Prenatal pertussis vaccine change from July 2024 letter Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Official Statistics: Waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patie… Friday, 24 May 2024
Official Statistics: Bed availability and occupancy data for Q4 2023/24 Friday, 24 May 2024
Official Statistics: Diagnostic imaging dataset for January 2024 Friday, 24 May 2024
Guidance: Newborn and infant physical examination screening: standards Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Form: Data submission template: FASP screening laboratories Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Form: Data submission template: maternity service Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Form: Data submission template: child health information services Tuesday, 21 May 2024
Promotional material: Diabetic eye screening: description in brief Thursday, 16 May 2024
Guidance: Breast Screening: Attended not screened Thursday, 16 May 2024
Guidance: IDPS: ISOSS Syphilis outcome report 2023 Thursday, 16 May 2024
Guidance: IDPS: ISOSS HIV outcome report 2023 Thursday, 16 May 2024
Guidance: IDPS: ISOSS Syphilis outcome report 2023 Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Guidance: IDPS: ISOSS HIV outcome report 2023 Wednesday, 15 May 2024
Press release: Patients to benefit from largest expansion of choice in a de… Tuesday, 14 May 2024
Press release: 350 extra medical school places allocated in NHS training bo… Sunday, 12 May 2024
Press release: 350 extra medical school places allocated in NHS training bo… Sunday, 12 May 2024
National Statistics: Ambulance Quality Indicators Systems Indicators for Ap… Thursday, 09 May 2024
Official Statistics: NHS Cancelled Elective Operations, Q4 2023/24 Thursday, 09 May 2024
Official Statistics: Mixed Sex Accommodation breaches for March 2024 Thursday, 09 May 2024
Official Statistics: Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection (IUC … Thursday, 09 May 2024
Official Statistics: NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care … Thursday, 09 May 2024
Open consultation: Urinary tract infection: diagnostic tools for primary ca… Wednesday, 08 May 2024
Promotional material: Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: invitation leafl… Tuesday, 07 May 2024
April 2024
Guidance: Cervical screening: quarterly coverage data reports 2023 Friday, 26 April 2024
Guidance: Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome: options … Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Official Statistics: Diagnostic imaging dataset for December 2023 Thursday, 18 April 2024
Official Statistics: Waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patie… Thursday, 11 April 2024
National Statistics: Referral to treatment waiting times statistics for con… Thursday, 11 April 2024
Official Statistics: Referrals for first consultant-led outpatient appointm… Thursday, 11 April 2024
Official Statistics: Mixed Sex Accommodation breaches for February 2024 Thursday, 11 April 2024
Official Statistics: Integrated Urgent Care Aggregate Data Collection (IUC … Thursday, 11 April 2024
Guidance: Newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) operational guidance Tuesday, 09 April 2024
March 2024
Guidance: Managing safety incidents in NHS screening programmes Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Official Statistics: Diagnostic imaging dataset for November 2023 Thursday, 21 March 2024
Guidance: Diabetic eye screening: approved cameras and settings Thursday, 14 March 2024