Doctors and nurses will be able to reduce unnecessary patient tests and improve safety through better working between hospitals and GPs and social care. New partnerships will be introduced giving health and care staff better and faster access to vital information about the person in their care, so they can determine the right action as […]

A senior paramedic’s light-bulb moment that has cut A&Es visits from “frequent callers” by up to 90 per cent is being rolled out across the country. The High Intensity User programme was the brainchild of Rhian Monteith, who was working as an advanced paramedic in Blackpool when she noticed that a very small group of […]

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 […]

The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health set out clear recommendations on suicide prevention and reduction, and made a commitment to reduce suicides by 10% nationally by 2020/21. Alongside this, Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt announced a zero suicide ambition for mental health inpatients in January of this year. In 18/19, local communities that […]

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 […]

Improved mental health care for patients with physical ailments has reduced demand for GP appointments and cut hospital admissions by three quarters in a pilot scheme as part of a programme of new services that NHS England is rolling out across the country. Since 2016, the NHS has begun testing new services which integrate mental […]

Olympic gold medallist and former nursing assistant Dame Kelly Holmes is urging the nation to get active in the year the NHS turns 70 and take part in a special celebratory parkrun. The sporting superstar urged people of all ages and abilities to join in a local parkrun for the NHS on Saturday 9 June […]

Ruth May, our Executive Director of Nursing, reflects on her time as a nurse, the challenges and what’s to come this year in the run up to International Nurses Day. I’m proud to say I joined the nursing profession on the 5 July 1985 and throughout a career varied in its geography, its scope and […]

New processes to simplify the NHS research set up process and cut delays will be implemented this year. In some cases there can be a difference of up to nine months between each hospital taking part in a multi-site trial being confirmed, which delays the start of that trial which could be for cancer or […]

NHS England has confirmed that new and expectant mums will be able to access specialist perinatal mental health community services in every part of the country by April next year. The health service is now spending £23 million rolling out the second wave of community perinatal services to underserved parts of the country and is […]