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Following its success since 2016, NHS England and Health Education England are launching a campaign to promote the GP induction and refresher (I&R) scheme again through digital, social media and print advertising.

A new hotline for homeless patients who struggle to access GP care is to be launched by Manchester-based social initiative, Homeless Friendly.

Public Health England (PHE) has launched a major new national “Cervical Screening Saves Lives” campaign to increase the number of women attending their cervical screening across England.

A survey conducted by Asthma UK has found that more than half of patients with asthma skip their medication due to prescription costs.

The Commission on the Mental Wellbeing of NHS Staff and Learners has launched its Developing People for Health and Healthcare report for Health Education England (HEE).

Insight, a new survey undertaken by ComRes for the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has found that the majority of doctors say they are too busy to provide the quality of end-of-life care they would like to.

The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed its proposed rates for statutory maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental payments from April 2019 (policy paper is here). These new rates will be effective from 7 April 2019.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called pagers “outdated” and has called on the NHS to stop using them for communications by 2021.

Under new Government proposals, up to 2.8 million social care and health staff will be required to undertake mandatory learning disability and autism training in order to “challenge attitudes and unconscious bias”.

A new campaign launched by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is encouraging patients to complain about their experiences of GP care if they have concerns, in order to improve services.