The National Medical Director of NHS England today proposes a fundamental shift in provision of urgent care, with more extensive services outside hospital and patients with more serious or life threatening conditions receiving treatment in centres with the best clinical teams, expertise and equipment. Sir Bruce Keogh is publishing a report on the first stage […]
NHS England today welcomes the publication of a report into emergency admissions by the National Audit Office. The report shows the number of emergency admissions to hospitals is continuing to rise, albeit at a slower rate than in the past, and more patients attending major A&E departments are now being admitted to hospital. Professor Keith […]
NHS England has today supported the Secretary of State for Health as he set out his plans for ensuring the safety and sustainability of urgent and emergency care services this winter and into the future. NHS England’s Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Dame Barbara Hakin, and Medical Director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, set […]
Take your opportunity to have your say on NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review before it closes to comments this Sunday (11 August). Please contribute and give us your views.
The NHS in London is responding to patient and staff concern at the dip in A&E performance in spring 2013, by focussing on ways to improve the responsiveness of services to those who need them by improving waiting times at A&E, and by improving how community services respond to ensure that patients are seen and treated quickly […]
Details of the Keogh Review into the Quality of Care and Transparent Treatment by 14 Hospital Trusts in England have been published. In a statement to the House of Commons today, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, gave the background to the independent review undertaken by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s Medical Director. The findings of […]
NHS England today has welcomed the findings of an independent audit that shows 20 per cent more patients are now surviving severe trauma since the introduction of Major Trauma Networks in 2010. Results from the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) national audit show that 1 in 5 patients who would have died before the […]
I welcome the opportunity to appear before the Health Select Committee to lay out the evidence behind NHS England’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care. Together with senior colleagues Professor Sir Bruce Keogh and Dame Barbara Hakin, we are not only taking our message to Parliament and talking to MPs, but this is also a chance […]
NHS England is today asking patients, public and NHS staff to help shape the future of urgent and emergency care services. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review was announced in January this year. Its aim is to develop a national framework to build a safe, more efficient system, 24 hours a day, […]
Plans to strengthen performance in urgent and emergency care are being put in place across the country to help hospital A&E departments meet demand and tackle waiting time pressures. Read the A&E improvement plan and accompanying letter to staff. (these documents are no longer available here but can be found on the National Archives website) […]