Letter to Sarah Clarke, President, Royal College of Physicians from Professor Sir Steve Powis FRCP, Dr Navina Evans CBE MRCPsych and Professor Sheona MacLeod FRCP, regarding NHS England’s position on physician associates.

In this letter Tim Kendall, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental Health sets out NHS England’s position that serenity integrated mentoring (SIM) or similar models must no longer be used in NHS mental health services. More specifically, the following three elements, which were all included within SIM but were not exclusive to it, must be eradicated from mental health services.

• Police involvement in the delivery of therapeutic interventions in planned, non-emergency, community mental health care (this is not the same as saying all joint work with the police must stop).
• The use of sanctions (criminal or otherwise), withholding care and otherwise punitive approaches, as clarified in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance.
• Discriminatory practices and attitudes towards patients who express self harm behaviours, suicidality and/or those who are deemed ‘high intensity users’.

The first ever plan for transformation of NHS Human Resources (HR) and Organisational Development (OD) will put us in a stronger position than ever before to support staff and patients through rapid and widespread change. Around 1.4 million people work in the NHS. Within that, 16,000 people professionals are responsible for developing and delivering one […]

The Community mental health framework replaced the Care Programme Approach (CPA) for community mental health services. It enables services to shift away from an inequitable, rigid and arbitrary CPA classification and bring up the standard of care towards a minimum universal standard of high-quality care for everyone in need of community mental healthcare.

Position specification for National Health Service, Chief Executive role.

This is a unique role. The Chief Executive will lead a strong team of experienced executives and is highly visible as the head of the largest free at the point of delivery health system in the world. They will be jointly accountable to the Board of NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care, and to Parliament for the delivery of services worth c.£150bn (2021/22).

The National Quality Board (NQB) has issued a Position Statement for those working in health and care systems.  Endorsed by Lord Darzi, the Position Statement emphasises the importance of prioritizing the delivery of high-quality care at this crucial time of transition and sets out some core principles and consistent operational requirements for quality oversight in systems.

Leading change The neonatal practice development nurse and infant feeding midwife at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust led a programme of work to adopt and implement the ‘RAPP’ (Respirations, Activity, Perfusion, Position/Tone) tool (Ludington-Hoe, 2014) in their maternity unit. This programme led to improved outcomes for new-born babies in the unit. Where to look In 2014, […]

A report which summarises the learning from engagement work, which identified what the best performing trusts in the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) area were doing, and includes examples that outline best practice approaches and a number of suggested actions to support improvement.

Request for information relating to NHS Improvement staff positions and contact details and various policies and procedures.

Request for information relating to NHS Improvement staff positions and contact details and various policies and procedures.