Health & NHS news

Medicines · 20 Aug 2026 · 2 Min Prescription items for diabetes in England increased 135 per cent over 10 years

Public health · 18 Aug 2026 · 2 Min Researchers says health checks have ‘significant survival benefit’ in identifying CVD

Clinical services · 12 Aug 2026 · 2 Min Limiting BP checks to once every five years ‘retrograde’ say pharmacy bodies

Preventative medicine · 10 Aug 2026 · 2 Min MHRA approves second oral GLP-1, orforglipron, for weight loss

Medicines · 07 Aug 2026 · 1 Min DHSC issues eighth serious shortage protocol for Creon

Clinical services · 07 Aug 2026 · 2 Min Patients allowed one hypertension check every five years as service spec updated

Prescribing · 05 Aug 2026 · 2 Min A record-breaking two million women prescribed HRT in 2025-26

Medication safety · 03 Aug 2026 · 2 Min Puberty blockers trial to proceed after legal challenge quashed

Public health · 03 Aug 2026 · 2 Min Pharmacies in England deliver nearly 90,000 meningitis B vaccines in two weeks

Clinical services · 31 Jul 2026 · 2 Min Every pharmacy in England could have pharmacist prescriber by 2031 if Labour lays groundwork

Women's health · 28 Jul 2026 · 2 Min Over 300k women access free EHC from pharmacies in 5 months

Immunizations · 27 Jul 2026 · 2 Min ‘We’ve had no MenB vaccines delivered’: 85% of pharmacies face difficulties with service

Medicines · 23 Jul 2026 · 2 Min Prescribing of mental health medicines in England on the rise, figures show

Medicines · 21 Jul 2026 · 1 Min ‘Several batches’ of 'critical' ADHD drug have wrong tablet count, flags MHRA

Immunizations · 17 Jul 2026 · 2 Min JCVI recommends catch-up MenB vaccines for teenagers in ‘significant step forward’

Medicines · 16 Jul 2026 · 2 Min NHS England confirms 13 ICBs trialling Single National Formulary

Medication safety · 16 Jul 2026 · 1 Min MHRA updates botulinum toxin warning after ‘rare’ botulism cases

Integrated care · 13 Jul 2026 · 2 Min NPA: Labour is ‘missing huge trick’ by excluding pharmacy from health and social care plan