Media Monitoring: 24th – 30th July

Jacqueline Totterdell has been appointed as the next Chief Executive of NHS Wales, succeeding Judith Paget, who will take on a new role as Director General for Strategy within the Welsh Government.
Currently serving as Group Chief Executive Officer of St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group, Jacqueline brings extensive leadership experience to the role.
She is expected to begin her new position as Chief Executive of NHS Wales and Director General for Health, Social Care and Early Years before the end of September.

The Telegraph is calling for a targeted national screening programme for prostate cancer, focused on men who are at the greatest risk of developing the disease.
This includes men over 50, black men (whose risk is twice that of white men) and those with a family history of prostate cancer.
As it stands, 55,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in England every year. Data shows that almost 10,000 of them had to visit their GP at least three times before their cancer was detected.

Millions more GP appointments are now being delivered across England, with 2,000 additional GPs hired since October, as part of the government’s Plan for Change to rebuild the NHS and bring back the family doctor.
The recruitment drive is helping to shift care out of hospitals and into communities, ending the 8am scramble and making it easier for patients to access timely, personalised care.
In May 2025 alone, an extra 12,000 GP appointments were delivered every working day compared to the same month in 2024. The new GPs are expected to deliver over 4 million additional appointments per year.

Timely health care for children and young people is vital. Missing out on the right interventions at the right time can have a lifelong impact not only on children’s health but also on their wider life chances.
Yet despite repeated national commitments to improve child health, children are still waiting too long for care, and there is ample evidence of stark inequalities in the health of children between more and less deprived areas.

New, groundbreaking research to protect both animal and human health from antibiotic-resistant infections is underway to develop the world’s first dedicated surveillance system in healthy dogs and cats, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) has announced.
Over half of UK adults own pets and live with them in a shared environment, meaning that bacteria, including resistant bacteria, can spread easily between animals and people. All animals and humans have bacteria in their bodies and in many cases these bugs do not cause any harm.
However, some bacteria can be resistant to antibiotics which can lead to serious human or animal health consequences if they cause an infection.