A WEST Dorset care home is asking to convert a former stable building to add up to a dozen dementia care bedrooms. The planning application to Dorset Council comes from The Hyde Residential Home ...

A major expansion of the private sector’s role in providing elective NHS care in England risks diverting finite staff ... deliver an additional one million appointments a year for NHS patients.2 The ...

expressed doubt over whether the plan could be delivered. "Doctors have been just as frustrated as their patients by the lack of facilities to deliver care and want to bring waiting lists down ...

Our new plan sets out how the NHS will reform elective care services and meet the 18 week referral to treatment standard by March 2029. Under this plan elective care will be increasingly personalised ...

"We will, of course, protect the principles we all cherish - care ... patients languishing on waiting lists, often in pain or fear. Lives on hold. Potential unfulfilled. “This elective reform ...

Millions more appointments.” The plan will increase the use of community diagnostic centres, letting patients access care such as scans, tests, and checks closer to home. It will also roll out a ...

The elective reform plan will also establish minimum standards for patients to give them more power over decision-making. This includes giving people a choice on how their care is followed up ...

More NHS patients who need elective care will be able to decide where they are treated in a major change to the health service’s app. The NHS App will be overhauled to give patients more choice under ...

“Our plan will reform the NHS, so patients are fully informed every step of the way through their care, they are given proper choice to go to a different provider for a shorter wait, and put in ...

"Our plan will reform the NHS, so patients are fully informed every step of the way through their care, they are given proper choice to go to a different provider for a shorter wait, and put in ...

The plan will allow patients with certain conditions to receive referrals from general practitioners for tests, checks and scans without the need to see a specialist first, the NHS said in a ...