Public sector pay: Workers offered pay rises of around 6%/in /by
PM Rishi Sunak said the offer to workers was final and there would be "no more talks on pay".
Improving the Data Access Request Service/in /by

Senior content designer Jessamine Marie explains how her team used user-centred design principles to put people at the heart of redesigning our Data Access Request Service.

Clinicians, researchers and commissioners can apply to access healthcare data through the Data Access Request Service (DARS). The main objective of any DARS service user is to request data quickly and easily.

Why accessible design is good design/in /by

Josh Healey, User-Centred Design Lead for the Register with a GP surgery service, explains how redesigning the first page of the service made it more accessible for everyone – and how they created a framework to measure impact.

General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in our communities. GPs treat common medical conditions, refer patients to hospitals and act as the first place many go to for health and wellbeing advice. This is why it is so important that everyone can register with and see a GP when they need to.

Nottingham maternity review to become UK’s largest/in /by
A senior midwife leading the inquiry in Nottingham says 1,700 families' cases will be examined.
Weight-loss jabs investigated for suicide risk/in /by
Europe's drugs regulator has been alerted to a possible link to thoughts of suicide among some users.
Using meningitis pictures and video on 111 online/in /by

Paul Pod, Interaction Designer in the NHS 111 online team, explains how they have improved information about meningitis symptoms by adding multimedia content to triage questions.

When people use NHS 111 online, they usually have an urgent medical problem and they want to know what to do and where to go to get it sorted as quickly as possible. As designers, we spend all our time developing our understanding of users and thinking about how to make our service as accessible as possible.

Covid inquiry: The UK pandemic in numbers/in /by
Explore the data on how the coronavirus pandemic unfolded in the UK.
‘Patients paying the price’ for strikes – NHS chief executive/in /by
Amanda Pritchard says patients are facing disruption for "both sides" failing to find agreement in a dispute over pay in the health service.