22 October 2015
After the Health Select Committee insisted, PHE published evidence on interventions to reduce sugar consumption.
30 October 2015
A national plan set targets to reduce inpatient provision of care for people with learning disabilities and autism.
25 November 2015
The government committed to increasing NHS England's budget, but the wider health budget faced a real terms reduction.
The chancellor announced a Better Care Fund boost, a new adult social care precept and that the government remained committed to the Dilnot reforms.
30 November 2015
The Committee called on the Prime Minister to make a difference to children's health and life chances, through the childhood obesity strategy.
3 December 2015
NHS procurement processes came under scrutiny after a contract between the ‘leader provider’ consortium and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG collapsed.
11 December 2015
The Chief Medical Officer's annual report covered violence against women and women's health in their reproductive years and later life.
2015
Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of the NHS, expressed doubts about the spread of devolution outside of Manchester.
8 January 2016
Following evaluation of evidence about alcohol's harm to health, new guidelines made significant changes to existing 1995 guidelines.
