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The NHS has warned that England’s health service is being pushed into a “worst-case scenario” this winter due to an unprecedented surge in flu cases — dubbed super-flu  — alongside ongoing pressures on urgent and emergency care. What’s Happening Record flu hospitalisations:  An average of ~2,660 people were in hospital with flu each day last week – the highest recorded for this time of year, and up 55% in just one week . NHS England Winter pressures rising:  Hospital beds use

The UK Government has announced a major overhaul of NHS dentistry, set to take effect in April 2026 , with the aim of improving access to care, especially for urgent and complex dental problems. For years, patients have struggled to find NHS dentists willing or able to treat serious dental needs. Appointments for pain relief, infections, or dental trauma have often been hard to secure, leaving people in discomfort or travelling far from home. These longstanding access issues

Getting fast, reliable dental care when you need it shouldn’t be difficult — especially when you’re in pain. To help make this easier for patients, BOB ICB (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West) has now rolled out the Government’s new Urgent Dental Care Scheme, offering both urgent and non-urgent unscheduled dental appointments across the area. Here’s what this means for people in West Berkshire. What does ‘unscheduled dental care’ mean? Urgent unscheduled care is: