National leaders are working on a new set of “digital maturity” ratings aimed to prevent NHS organisations from ‘gaming’ the system to win central funding.

The NHS Confederation’s PCN Network’s report highlights the progress made by PCNs two years since their creation and sets out key principles to guide their future development.

NICE has today published a new rapid COVID-19 guideline to help healthcare staff identify and treat patients who develop the rare syndrome vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) after receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.

In a change to current practice the guideline says that the first-line choice of antibiotic for adults for a first episode of mild or moderate C. difficile infection should be oral vancomycin, rather than metronidazole.