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SOUTH CENTRAL AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Ambulance services join forces in first group model

By Liz Wells 29 October 2025

South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) and South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) are to merge to form the South Central and South East Ambulance Group - the first of its kind in England.

PHARMACIES

Free 'morning after pill' becomes available at high street pharmacies

By Liz Wells 29 October 2025

Women can access the morning-after pill free of charge on the NHS in high-street pharmacies across England from today (29 October).

COMMUNITY

Government lacks understanding of the value of hospices, NAO finds

By Lee Peart 29 October 2025

The DHSC and NHSE do not know how funding is used by hospices for palliative and end-of-life care due to a lack of central oversight, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

Scottish government set to invest £531m in general practice

By Liz Wells 29 October 2025

The Scottish Government plans to invest an additional £531m in general practice over the next three years to support recruitment.

LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS

NHS AI trial to diagnose prostate cancer faster

By Liz Wells 28 October 2025

The NHS will test an AI-powered 'one-day diagnostics' service for prostate cancer that could save some men up to a month of waiting.

REGULATION

Mental health trust criticised following death of arrested man

By Lee Peart 28 October 2025

A coroner has criticised Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) for not running a Saturday service for arrested people after a man took his own life.

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS NHS TRUST

Midlands trust first to use virtual reality technology in spinal surgery

By Liz Wells 28 October 2025

Surgeons at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) have become the first in the UK to use new virtual reality technology during spinal surgery.

SUSTAINABILITY

Coventry and Warwickshire NHS launches new sustainability plan

By Liz Wells 28 October 2025

Coventry and Warwickshire ICS has unveiled its refreshed Green Plan (2025-2028),setting out an ambitious vision to make local health and care more sustainable, resilient, and environmentally respon...

REGULATION

Trust pleads guilty over death of teenage girl

By Lee Peart 28 October 2025

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (UHST) has pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment to a 16-year-old girl with severe mental health difficulties who took her ow...

NHS COUNTER FRAUD AUTHORITY

Five convictions in £300k NHS fraud case

By Liz Wells 28 October 2025

A former NHS credit controller has been convicted of fraud and five others of money laundering, following an investigation by NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA).