Nursing and midwifery have changed dramatically since the days of Florence Nightingale and I am proud of what we as professions have achieved and continue to achieve. Today there are more than half a million registered nurses and midwives in England with 50,000 working out of hospital in care homes and the care sector. Alongside […]

Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England Medical Director, has issued a rallying call to healthcare professionals across the country to focus on improving early recognition and timely treatment of sepsis. At an event in London last night and ahead of a major new public awareness campaign delivered in collaboration with the UK Sepsis Trust, he […]

The Chief Nursing Officer for England, Professor Jane Cummings, will today launch a new framework encouraging all nursing, midwifery and care staff to get in the driving seat and help transform the health and care sector. Professor Cummings will say that these three groups of highly skilled compassionate professionals represent the largest group of health […]

Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England, opened her fourth CNO Summit reflecting on the achievements of the previous year and looking forward towards a new vision and strategy. The CNO Summit is an annual event bringing together senior nursing, midwifery and care leaders from across England to discuss some of the key issues […]

NHS England has today published new guidance to help improve the care and experience of children and adults with continence issues (revised document published July 2018). Problems with the bladder affect more than 14 million people in the UK and about 6.5 million have bowel problems. In addition, 900,000 children and young people reportedly suffer […]

The theme for this year’s Chief Nursing Officer’s Summit will be ‘Leading Change and Creating Value’. The Summit, to be staged in Birmingham on 1 and 2 December 2015, will be attended by up to 500 senior nurses, patient representatives, academics and other Arm’s Length Bodies involved in shaping the future of health and care. […]

Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England, today called on the nursing, midwifery and wider clinical professions and the public to engage with the development of a strategy to follow ‘Compassion in Practice’. Speaking at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015 conference in Manchester, she said: “We want to build this vision from what people […]

Empowering people and their families has been a priority for NHS England as it looks to develop and improve its learning disability services. Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England, said: giving people with learning disabilities their families and carers more say over their care was fundamental to the planning of future services. She […]

England’s Chief Nursing Officer, Jane Cummings, has today written to Nursing Directors, CCGs, ALBs and other stakeholders about the next steps in ensuring the NHS is safely staffed. CNO safe staffing letter to Directors of Nursing and other stakeholders

A video by Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England, has been released to mark International Nurses Day and International Day of the Midwife. In the video, Jane looks at: The focus of the NHS Five Year Forward View on preventing ill health, promoting health and wellbeing, and working with patients and communities in delivering […]