To mark this year’s World Patient Safety Day and the theme of engaging patients for patient safety in this blog, Jess Peck and Helen Keynes, patient safety specialists in NHS England’s London regional team, celebrate their two patient safety partners Derek Corbett and Amy Butler, by putting a series of questions to them about their role. […]
The pilot Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Health Inequality Finance Fellowship programme launched in 2023. Over 40 fellows have been recruited for the 2023/24 programme. The fellowship provides an opportunity to harness the ambition of the finance community in supporting the health inequalities agenda while investing in finance staff who are passionate and already working […]
The special schools eye care service has been running as a proof-of-concept since May 2021 and is currently live in 83 schools, this is due to end in March 2024. On the 19 June 2023 the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England issued a joint statement to confirm that sight testing […]
Earlier this year, we blogged about new software that the NHS is procuring to connect data across the NHS – a ‘federated data platform’. Digital systems have seamlessly integrated into our daily routines, simplifying tasks from international travel arrangements, to following the progress of our online purchases from warehouses (or restaurants and takeaways) to our […]
The Chief Pharmaceutical Officer (CPhO) is the head of the pharmacist and pharmacy technician professions in England, a workforce of over 72,000 highly trained, registered professionals in hospitals, community healthcare, general practices and community pharmacies. He is the principal advisor on pharmacy and medicines use in the NHS, which includes supporting the Department of Health and Social […]
It’s been just over a year since integrated care boards (ICBs) took on their statutory functions, and progress through collaboration in the area of medicines and pharmacy has been very positive. The publication in March 2023 of the new action plan on prescribed medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal symptoms was the culmination of close […]
This guidance sets out 16 national medicines optimisation opportunities and signposts to resources to support integrated care boards (ICBs) to choose at least five to deliver alongside their local medicines optimisation priorities. The list of 16 is not provided in any priority order and reflects the breadth of opportunities that can be selected by ICBs […]
The Digital Maturity Assessment helps providers and integrated care systems across England to understand their level of digital maturity by identifying key strengths and gaps in the provision of digital services. How digital maturity is measured The assessment measures maturity against the seven dimensions of the What Good Looks Like (WGLL) framework: Well led Smart […]
The NHS England Outcomes and Registries Programme was established in 2022 to develop a single, unified registry solution – the Outcome Registries Platform. The platform consolidates existing implantable device-level registries and implements new outcome registry data collections to address data and vigilance gaps, enabling the prevention of patient safety issues and adverse outcomes. The programme […]
The NHS has a long history of data-driven research and innovation. During the pandemic, NHS data enabled us to carry out research at an unprecedented scale and find the world’s first effective treatment for Covid-19, dexamethasone, making it available across every hospital the same day it was approved. NHS data enabled us to not just […]