Dr Donald Berwick, the renowned international authority on health care quality and improvement management, is today appointed by The King’s Fund with NHS England and national partners to help support vanguard sites in developing the new models of care set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View. Don, who is currently President Emeritus and […]

NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens will today (Friday 25 September) announce radical new options for the future of local hospitals across the NHS. The new models being developed by 13 new hospital Vanguards represent the next stage of implementing the NHS Five Year Forward View. Today’s new group of NHS Vanguards involve some of […]

The New Care Model Vanguards are about empowering both the people they serve and the people who serve. That was the message from a panel discussion on the second day of the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015 in Manchester. 37 New Care Model Vanguards have been named so far, with a further tranche focussing […]

The NHS Five Year Forward View partners have today (31 July 2015) published an initial support package for the new models of care vanguards which were launched in March 2015. The 29 vanguards, local NHS and care consortiums which are leading on developing new and better ways of providing care to act as blueprints for […]

NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens today (Weds) announced in a speech at a major health conference that Devon would be one of three areas in England where local health and care organisations worked together to make improvements for patients as part of the new Success Regime. The NHS Five Year Forward View, published last […]

The NHS today (20 May) invites expressions of interest from hospitals across England interested in developing new ways of delivering and improving their local acute services. The aim is to enhance the viability of local hospitals through new formal shared working arrangements between clinical specialists at different hospitals, and to improve efficiency by sharing back […]

The NHS has today (Tuesday 10 March) chosen the first 29 ‘vanguard’ geographies that will take the national lead on transforming care for patients in towns, cities and counties across England. 269 groups of nurses, doctors and other health and social care staff from across the country put forward their ideas for how they want […]

NHS England and its national partners have announced a new programme to focus on the acceleration of the design and implementation of new models of care in the NHS. As set out in the Five Year Forward View, rapid progress is needed to speed up the development of new care models for promoting health and […]

NHS England, Monitor and TDA on behalf of the six national NHS bodies who led the development of the NHS Five Year Forward View have today appointed two experienced national leaders to support implementation of the new care models identified in the Forward View. Samantha Jones, Chief Executive of Watford, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead […]

NHS England and Monitor have today published plans describing radical changes to how healthcare is paid for, which will enable the NHS to introduce new models of care. This would enable the NHS to put into practice its long-standing commitment to better integrate hospital, community and mental health care, and provide a payment system to […]