Long term conditions

Award winning NHS England event set to be repeated

NHS England’s award-winning Future of Health Conference will be staged again later this year. The conference, which recently won Best Event of the Year at the prestigious British Media Awards, will be held on 21 November in London. As with last year’s event – which attracted 1,000 delegates – a People’s Panel made up of […]

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New approach needed to frail elderly care

Professor John Young, NHS England’s Director for Integration and Frail Elderly Care, today told a high-powered Westminster Health Forum that a new “Frailty Index” is needed to help improve services for older people. Professor Young told the seminar that better recognition of frailty as a long term condition is key to the future care of […]

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Patients’ jury features at Future of Health Conference

Some of NHS England’s most influential figures are to take part in a high profile conference, The Future of Health, in London. The two-day conference, being staged by NHS England and UCL Partners  and being held at the Business Design Centre in London, will also feature some of the world’s leading experts on the care […]

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New Medicine Service extended

The New Medicine Service (NMS) is being extended to 31 December 2013. The service provides extra support, advice and guidance through community pharmacies for patients that are newly prescribed a medicine for specific long-term conditions. The NMS was implemented as a time-limited service commissioned until March 2013 to improve medicine adherence and outcomes for patients. […]

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