Health Services & System News

For a veteran who has spent almost 11 years waking from nightmares, a single uninterrupted night's sleep can feel like an achievement beyond reach. Yet that was what one participant experienced during an intensive therapy programme run by Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust. The pilot's results are striking: six in ten veterans who took part were able to leave secondary mental health services without needing further treatment. The programme, delivered through the trust's Tra

A parent in Saltley whose child twists an ankle at half past six on a weekday evening has, until now, had a fairly clear idea of where to seek help. Washwood Heath is nearby, and in a community where many households do not own a car, proximity can determine whether care is accessible at all. Under a major reorganisation approved by NHS Birmingham and Solihull, however, that familiar arrangement is set to change. Washwood Heath is not among the seven urgent treatment centres p

A woman notices a persistent bloating that has not eased over several weeks. She considers it, decides it is probably nothing, and thinks about how full the surgery's phone lines are at eight in the morning. She does not ring. Nothing in the NHS's cancer performance data records this moment, yet it may shape her outcome more than anything that happens after she is eventually referred. Work led by Dr Elizabeth Towers in Essex puts numbers on that hesitation. Local research fou