National celebrations at Westminster Abbey and York Minster will pay tribute to NHS staff and patients to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday on Thursday 5 July 2018. Participants in the Westminster Abbey service include Freya Lewis, a survivor of the Manchester terror attack suffering 29 separate injuries, and Dr Martin Griffiths, a leading NHS trauma […]
In the weeks before the NHS’s 70th birthday, one in eight of the Queen’s Birthday Honours have been awarded for contributions to health, including more than 60 awards to NHS staff. Midwives, nurses, psychiatrists, GPs and volunteers are among the wide range of people honoured for their work in the health service. NHS staff have […]
Over 12 million people will soon benefit from better joined up NHS and social care as four more areas, covering four and a half million extra people, are today (Thurs) given more control to improve local services. NHS England chief Simon Stevens and Ian Dalton, head of NHS Improvement, have called on the NHS to […]
Today was the first public board meeting in common for NHS England and NHS Improvement where we agreed a new way of working, and discussed how local NHS services can better work together and the NHS’ 2018/19 operating plan. The National Health Service is turning 70 on 5 July 2018. Over the last seven decades […]
NHS teams across England have today (Friday 18 May) announced the individuals and teams they have chosen as regional champions in a prestigious competition to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday. The champions – including NHS porters, volunteers, patients, chief executives and local council health teams – will now vie with each other for a national award […]
Prince William will hail the National Health Service as “one of our country’s greatest treasures” tonight, at an awards ceremony to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday. HRH The Duke of Cambridge said: “The National Health Service is one of our country’s greatest treasures and something we should all be immensely proud of. “Perhaps the most wonderful […]
Health and care staff who have gone over and above the call of duty are in line for UK-wide recognition as part of the NHS’s 70th birthday celebrations. Patients, staff and the public are being invited to nominate employees that have made an exceptional contribution to patient care, health and care services and local communities […]
NHS England is calling on patients, staff, medical teams and the public to nominate NHS workers who deserve special recognition for a Windrush 70 Award. The awards are being hosted to celebrate the 1948 arrival of German cruise liner ‘Empire Windrush’ at Tilbury docks which carried 492 passengers from the West Indies on 22 June. […]
Six organisations responsible for health care in England have today published a new report outlining the experience of black and minority ethnic (BME) working for the health service. The latest publication from the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) programme, is the first to look at fairness at work for BME people in the six national […]
NHS England and NHS Improvement are today announcing some key steps that we are taking to bring our organisations closer together. We have one NHS: commissioners and providers in each part of the country are serving the same people, and we need to use the resources that Parliament gives the NHS to greater benefit for […]