With medicines accounting for a quarter of the NHS carbon footprint, Nazneen Rahman, Founder of YewMaker and co-creator of MCF Classifier, explains how AI-driven medicine carbon emissions data can support practical, scalable strategies that align clinical excellence and environmental stewardship.

Level 2 Proportionate Single-Handed Care qualification formalises single-handed care principles into Ofqual regulated training for the first time. The qualification counters the misconception that it is unlawful to provide moving and handling care activities with less than two handlers.

Barts Health NHS Trust and its partner organisation, Transformation Partners in Health and Care, have released a toolkit detailing their pioneering work embedding social prescribing in secondary care and specialist acute pathways. The toolkit aims to help providers address unmet social needs, improve patient outcomes and reduce demand on acute services, shaping a holistic, prevention-focused model for the future NHS.

Holly Health has announced a £320,000 fund, offering systems access to psychology-based digital health services, enabling system leaders to move forward with prevention initiatives.

NHS leaders are urging the Chancellor to rapidly create a national staff redundancy fund to smooth the pathway to the major budget cuts they are being required to make this year by the government.