The General Practice Improvement Programme (GPIP) provides nationally funded support for practices and primary care networks (PCNs) to implement modern general practice and help them realise benefits quickly. Practices and PCNs need time and headspace to make the changes to move to modern general practice. There are different funding streams available to integrated care boards (ICBs), PCNs […]
Louise Shepherd CBE, the Chief Executive of Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, has been appointed as the new chair of NHS England’s Children and Young People (CYP) Transformation Board. Louise has been Chief Executive of Alder Hey since 2008 and has been responsible for leading the Trust through a major transformation into Europe’s first […]
The NHS Long Term Plan has a strong focus on expanding and improving the quality of community care for people with mental health problems, including people with a learning disability and autistic people. As a result, more people are accessing community mental health services than ever before and there remains a real commitment to build on that […]
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 […]
We are one year on from our ambitious and landmark report, Delivering a Net Zero NHS. As COP26 begins in Glasgow, it seems a pertinent time to reflect on our actions to reach net zero carbon emissions and how we can all work together to achieve the ambitious targets set out. Climate change presents a […]
Where you can make a positive impact towards net zero Front-line AHPs and their teams should improve public health and reduce carbon impact by: Using remote consultation and monitoring where appropriate so that people make only essential trips to give and receive care. AHPs in leadership or management roles should: Consider sustainability in the business case, […]
Service improvement and transformation include empowering staff to take on a wider range of clinical tasks. Here the matron should: gain support from the senior management team for staff to take on a wider range of clinical tasks allocate protected management time to Band 7 leaders and hold regular one-to-one meetings with them carry out […]
NHS England and NHS Improvement have today appointed Dr Timothy Ferris as Director of Transformation. Dr Ferris, who has served as a non-executive director of NHS Improvement for almost three years, is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on improving health and care in both hospital and community settings. He will lead the new Transformation […]
Since April 2017, NHS England and NHS Improvement has made £105 million of diabetes transformation funding available to improve treatment and care for the 2.8 million adults and children diagnosed with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes across England. For Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and King’s Health Partners, this funding facilitated […]
The NHS National Medical Director was asked in June 2018 to review access standards to ensure that they measure what matters most both to patients and clinically.