Data report for 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 on antenatal screening standards, covering fetal anomaly screening, infectious diseases in pregnancy screening and sickle cell and thalassaemia screening performance and coverage.
Quarterly figures on cancer waiting times in Northern Ireland for April–June 2026, detailing patient waiting time performance for access to cancer services at hospitals across the region.
Monthly counts of registered deaths in Northern Ireland for September 2026, providing routine vital‑statistics breakdowns by time period and registration; the release updates the official monthly mortality series for Northern Ireland.
Vacancies open for two Veterinary Pharmacovigilance Inspectors to work on the UK inspection programme overseeing safety monitoring of veterinary medicinal products, recruiting specialists to inspect pharmacovigilance systems and compliance.
Food and You 2 wave 11 is the latest annual official statistics survey for the Food Standards Agency, continuing national data collection on consumer attitudes, behaviours and experiences related to food.
Survey
Data reports on sexually transmitted infections in England’s South West, presenting regional STI case figures and trends to inform local public health monitoring and service planning.
Presents deaths by ethnic group using the new ethnicity field introduced in the 2025 death certification reform for England and Wales, providing updated mortality statistics broken down by ethnicity.
Using the SAVM cohort simulation, scenarios where vaping displaces smoking project large public‑health gains: under an optimistic model reducing smoking prevalence to 5%, the US analysis estimated 6.6 million premature deaths averted and 86.7 million life‑years saved to 2100.
Economic analysis
Publishes historic general practice appointment activity for August 2026, including attended and did‑not‑attend markers, with coverage from national to sub‑ICB levels to support winter preparedness.
Detailed July 2026 NHS workforce (HCHS) statistics showing staff numbers by staff group, region and organisation, supporting monitoring of staffing levels across the service and regional workforce distribution.
MHRA Chair Professor Anthony Harnden publishes the final blog in a strategy series, reflecting on lessons learned and the role of innovation and cross‑UK collaboration in shaping future healthcare regulation and delivery.
A monitoring and evaluation framework sets out public health analysis to track progress against England’s HIV Action Plan aims, providing metrics and processes to evaluate prevention, testing, treatment and care outcomes.
Evaluation
Presents official statistics on unpaid adult carers in England (18+), reporting their opinions and experiences across topics indicative of achieving a balanced life alongside caring responsibilities for 2025–26.
Quarterly vital statistics for Northern Ireland (Apr–Jun 2026) covering numbers of births, deaths, marriages, causes of death, stillbirths and infant deaths for the period.
Triannual analysis of voluntarily reported UK radiotherapy incidents and near misses compiles learning from providers and reporting authorities to identify safety issues and improve radiotherapy practice and patient protection.
Evidence review
Quarterly UK data and commentary for 2026–27 from the COVER programme, reporting coverage levels achieved by the childhood immunisation programme across the UK to track vaccine uptake.
Provides headcount and full‑time equivalent data on the GP workforce in England as of 31 August 2026, broken down by job role, gender and age, with figures available for ICBs and Sub‑ICB Locations.
Final annual publication of hospital outpatient activity for 2025–26, replacing provisional monthly releases and providing complete counts and activity measures for outpatient attendances and pathways in the financial year.
Presents deaths of women aged 10–64 in England and Wales using the new pregnancy status field introduced by Death Certification Reform, reporting mortality by whether women were pregnant, recently pregnant, or not pregnant at time of death in 2025.
The EDGE project conducted experiments at three English freshwater sites to derive decay and growth rates for intestinal enterococci, improving understanding of bacterial persistence in freshwater environments.
Reports deaths by ethnicity in England and Wales using the ethnicity field added under Death Certification Reform, enabling mortality breakdowns by ethnic group for 2025.
Provides typical and high-rate habit data for different UK age groups to support radiological impact assessments, supplying behavioural parameter values used when estimating radiation doses to populations.
Evidence review
Summarises seasonal activity of Group A streptococcal infections in England for 2025–26, tracking incidence patterns and outbreak signals to inform public health surveillance and response during the season.
Mixed methods
Provisional weekly figures for deaths registered in England and Wales, covering the week ending 11 September 2026, have been published to track mortality trends and short‑term changes.
The MHRA has co‑signed an international statement with other regulators urging progress on non‑animal testing methods for medicines and safety assessment, promoting alternatives to animal use in regulatory science.
Annual standards data report for the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) screening programme, presenting coverage, timeliness and programme performance for newborn and infant physical checks over the most recent year.
Fact‑check rebuts resurfaced claims that Covid vaccines tripled cancer and miscarriage rates, explaining the inaccuracies and evidence showing no such increases attributable to vaccination.
Annual epidemiological commentary covering financial year 2025–26 (1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026) reporting trends in E. coli, Klebsiella spp., P. aeruginosa, MRSA and MSSA bacteraemias and C. difficile infections up to and including 2025–26.
Gives estimates of average annual earnings for senior staff groups across the NHS in England for July 2026, reporting pay levels for high‑level roles.
Reports headcount and full‑time equivalent figures for Primary Care Network staff as of 31 August 2026, with breakdowns by age and gender at PCN, Sub‑ICB, ICB, region and England levels.