Health services

Representative bodies across primary care joined forces to call for the Health and Care Bill to ensure the professions are represented in new decision-making structures

With the Health and Care Bill up for discussion in the House of Lords, and delays in the proposed transition to Integrated Care Systems, OT  considered what the changes could mean for the profession

NHS England and DHSC have confirmed that the GOS contract, fees and grants, will continue to be negotiated nationally when Integrated Care Boards take on primary care contract management

As part of the OFNC, the AOP has highlighted that “it is essential that optometry has a place at the table”

Membership bodies across optometry and audiology, dentistry and pharmacy have called on the Government to ensure wider primary care professions “have a voice”

Introduced to Parliament on 6 July, the Health and Care Bill would ensure each part of England has an Integrated Care Board and Integrated Care Partnership

AOP clinical director, Dr Peter Hampson, identified the possibilities for “exciting new clinical opportunities” for optometry, but also highlighted areas of the plans to monitor closely

An update on the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine Review has shed light on pay disparities within the NHS

NHS workers have been discouraged from stockpiling medicines in a letter describing plans for the “unlikely scenario” of an EU exit without agreement

RNIB has welcomed the Government’s Tobacco Control Plan