NHS England has today announced that the country’s Chief Nurse, Professor Jane Cummings, will take charge of the London region until a permanent Regional Director is recruited. Anne Rainsberry, the current Regional Director will step down from her role in the autumn, Professor Cummings will lead the London region from 18 September. Jane will continue […]

The UK was rated first out of 11 countries in a report on international healthcare systems published today by the Commonwealth Fund. The report compared the UK to healthcare systems in the US, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Australia. The Commonwealth Fund’s report ranks the UK first overall and […]

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has announced that he will be stepping down as NHS England’s National Medical Director at the end of the year after 10 years in the role. He has been appointed as Chair of Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and will take up this important role when he leaves NHS […]

We take a look back at a few of the highlights of our work over the last twelve months. January Back in January we announced that the first NHS hand transplants to be performed this year and by July the BBC were reporting how Chris King from Doncaster, who lost both his hands in an […]

Joanne Shaw has been appointed by the Secretary of State as a Non-Executive Director, who will also chair the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, at NHS England for four years from 1 October 2016. She is a non executive director and Chair of Audit at the National Audit Office, a position which she will hold […]

Today NHS England and NHS Improvement announce three key appointments to help transform how the NHS uses technology and information. The creation of these roles reflects recommendations in the forthcoming review on the future of NHS information systems by Dr Bob Wachter. Rather than appoint a single chief information and technology officer, consistent with the […]

17 June 2016, Manchester Morning Anita and thank you everybody for dragging yourselves out of bed, I hope you had a good evening. I did not have a chance to hear Jeremy yesterday, but I did hear Jim and I thought he was bang on the money, so really all I am going to do is […]

We want to find out how people use NHS England’s digital communication channels; this website, our email bulletins and our social media accounts (Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube). To help us better understand your needs please complete our survey – it shouldn’t take you any longer than five minutes. Complete the survey

Would you like to help us with a user research project on our digital communications? We want to observe users performing tasks on the NHS England website and our other channels. You are invited to take part in these sessions (lasting just one hour) taking place in either Leeds on 8 June or London on […]

NHS England would like to know how we can improve our digital communication channels including the NHS England website, our email bulletins and our social media accounts. We would like your feedback via a short online survey that should take no longer than two minutes to complete. Please share your views and help us improve […]