This section contains key management information related to the recovery and transformation of outpatient services, specifically Specialist Advice and patient initiated follow up activity. The NHS Long Term Plan, and latest Operational Planning Guidance, outline a range of interventions and transformation requirements including around Patient Initiated Follow up (PIFU) and Referral Optimisation (through specialist advice). […]
Digital transformation Home Digital transformation We’re using technology to help health and care professionals communicate better and enable people to access the care they need quickly and easily, when it suits them. From websites and apps that make care and advice easy to access wherever you are, to connected computer systems that give staff the […]
Transformation bulletin The Transformation bulletin is a roundup of the latest news and developments to bring together improvement best practice and digital technology to transform healthcare. Who is the bulletin for? This bulletin is for anyone who wants to learn more about how we can work together to improve, digitalise and transform NHS and care […]
Purposes for processing NHS England uses Assuring Transformation Data to check that people with a learning disability, autism or both are getting the right care in the right place. Please see our Assuring transformation data web page and What is assuring transformation for more information about how we do this. NHS Digital publishes a monthly […]
NHS teams across the region are continuing to work hard to bring down waiting lists that built up during the Covid-19 pandemic. Progress is being made and there have made significant improvements in the waiting list position thanks to the phenomenal efforts of our NHS teams. Latest published data shows that outpatient activity continues to […]
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 […]
We are reviewing and updating these webpages to reflect the current work of the maternity and neonatal programme. Better Births, the report of the National Maternity Review was published in February 2016 and set out a clear vision: for maternity services across England to become safer, more personalised, kinder, professional and more family friendly; where […]
An easy read and plain English documents explaining how NHS England puts information together to give better care for people with a learning disability, autism or both.
The transformation of children and young people’s mental health is led locally. This means local professionals from across the NHS, public health, children’s services in local authorities, education and youth justice working together with children, young people and their families to design and provide the best possible services for their locality. To support this local […]
The ‘provider elective recovery outpatient collection (EROC)’ requires NHS providers to submit monthly aggregated PIFU activity. This is a national data collection established in August 2021 to collate information from providers relating to their implementation of PIFU in outpatient services. For the purposes of this publication, PIFU activity includes the number of episodes moved or […]