There are almost 100 entries for this year’s Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards. The awards, to be staged for the second successive year at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015, will see 98 nominees fighting it out for the prizes – up from 80 entries last year. Judges are already saying the leap in the […]

Entries for the Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards close a week today. The awards, to be staged for the second successive year at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015, close to submissions next Friday, May 29. So now is the time to make sure you get your entry or nomination in. Named after Kate Granger, […]

The deadline for entries for the Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards is now just a month away. The awards, which will be staged for second successive year at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015, will close to submissions of May 29. So now is the time to make sure you get your entry or nomination […]

The Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care are to be staged for the second successive year at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015. Named after Kate Granger, the terminally ill doctor who has worked tirelessly to raise awareness around compassion in the NHS through her #hellomynameis social media campaign, the awards will be made at […]

Sir Bruce Keogh is set to see the progress being made on the new Emergency Care Hospital being built in Northumberland – the first purpose-built hospital of its kind in England. NHS England’s National Medical Director will be given a tour of the £90million development next month – just over a year since he was […]

NHS England is set to host its biggest event of the year with the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015 – and you can register as a delegate now! Expo 2015 will again be held at Manchester Central – on September 2 and 3 – and, as with last year’s hugely successful event, is expected […]

NHS England will today announce Health and Care Innovation Expo is to return to Manchester in 2015. More than 5,000 people from across NHS, voluntary and community sectors, including local commissioners and providers, CSUs, local authorities, industry specialists, clinicians and patient leaders will meet at Manchester Central on 2 and 3 September to take part […]

We need to increase the diagnosis rate for patients with dementia, Professor Alistair Burns said today. Speaking today on the Community Stage at Camp Expo in Manchester, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia said the current rate of less than 50 per cent was not high enough. Professor Burns, also Professor of Old Age […]

Dr Kate Granger announces Awards for Compassionate Care winners at NHS Expo. Speaking alongside Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England on the second day of the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2014, Dr Granger reflected on examples of outstanding patient-centred care as well as her own experiences as a doctor and a patient. The […]

NHS Change Day has received 388,000 pledges as it closes in on its ambitious target of half a million. More pledges poured in from delegates on the second day of the Health and Care Innovation Expo being staged at Manchester Central. They helped push the total number of pledges to improve care for people towards […]