Dr Ollie Hart, GP, Clinical Director of Heeley Plus Primary Care Network and Director of Peak Health Coaching, talks about how incorporating health coaching approaches into his consultations helped build self-management capabilities for his patients.Elaine Cross shares her experience of how this approach helped her explore a referral to a health and wellbeing coach, where […]
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. […]
This year’s theme for World Patient Safety Day is engaging patients for patient safety, recognising the crucial role those with lived experience of conditions have in supporting better patient care. Patient engagement has been essential to NHS England’s world-leading hepatitis C elimination programme, with the goal of eliminating the virus as a public health threat […]
The theme of this year’s World Patient Safety Day is ‘engaging patients for patient safety’. In this blog, Hester Wain, Head of Patient Safety Policy, along with Penny Phillips and Douglas Findlay, two of the patient safety partners working to support the national Patient Safety team, introduce NHS England’s work with patient safety partners. To […]
As this year’s World Patient Safety Day celebrates the theme ‘Engaging patients for patient safety’, I felt it was a good opportunity to explain the connection between medical examiners and patient safety, and particularly the support we provide for bereaved people, whose insights and experiences can be crucial in supporting the NHS to learn and […]
We can all agree that patients want easy access to their personal health information and the benefits this gives them. 1 in 4 people in England already have access to new entries in their GP record, and there are on average 5.5 million patient GP record views per month. Using the NHS App, these patients […]
Surgeon Sala Abdalla believes young people from disadvantaged backgrounds shouldn’t think a career in medicine is beyond them. She shares her inspirational story and how she’s supporting other young women from under-represented groups to pursue a career in surgery. I wanted to become a doctor from as early as I can remember. I spent my […]
