NHS England’s Chair, Lord David Prior, has today welcomed the appointment of one of the country’s leading experts in genetics and personalised medicine to the organisation’s board. Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed has been appointed by the Secretary of State as a non-executive director of NHS England. Among other posts, he is the David Weatherall Chair […]

Three of our executive directors have announced they will be stepping down from their roles. Steve Russell, Executive Regional Managing Director for London, Lyn Simpson, Executive Regional Managing Director for the North, and Adam Sewell-Jones, Executive Director of Improvement, will be leaving NHS Improvement. The departures of Steve, Lyn and Adam come as we continue […]

NHS England and NHS Improvement have today announced a new joint senior leadership team – the NHS Executive Group. As part of closer working arrangements between the two organisations, NHS England and NHS Improvement will share the new combined management group chaired by the two chief executives. Appointments to the new NHS Executive Group are: […]

Thousands of Londoners experiencing a mental health crisis will be sent a specialist nurse and a paramedic in a car on blue lights. By responding together, the specialist ambulance crew is expected to reduce mental health hospital admissions from 58,000 to 30,000 per year once it is rolled out across the capital. The London Ambulance […]

A resource Patient Safety Alert has been issued to help organisations ensure a safer system for the temporary identification of unidentified or unknown patients. Patient Safety Alert – Safer temporary identification criteria for unknown or unidentified patients Emergency departments often care for patients unable or unwilling to give their identity including people who are unconscious or […]

The NHS’s national cancer director will today announce that an NHS state of the art proton beam therapy machine for cancer is set to treat the first patient in England at The Christie in Manchester this month, marking a major milestone for NHS care. Speaking at Britain Against Cancer in London, Cally Palmer will also […]

New and expectant fathers will be offered mental health checks and treatment under radical action to support families, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens announced today (2 December 2018). In the landmark move, the partners of pregnant women and new mothers who are themselves suffering from anxiety, depression or more severe disorders such as psychosis […]

Hundreds of thousands of people will receive NHS help to battle obesity and Type 2 diabetes under radical action set out by Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, today. Very low calorie diets that have been shown to put Type 2 Diabetes in remission in those recently diagnosed with the condition will be trialled […]

The Long Term Plan for the NHS will signal a reset on performance over the next five years, as frontline staff and managers continue to ensure record numbers of patients get the healthcare and support they need. Our latest report on the performance of the provider sector, covering July to September 2018, shows that hospitals […]

NHS England will today consider guidance to GPs about a ban on gluten free pizzas, cakes and biscuits and set out plans to curb other low priority items such as silk garments and bath oils in moves that could save almost £70 million a year. NHS England has already ordered an end to the routine […]