Following a successful first year, NHS England has announced four new candidates for the 2017 Chief Scientific Officer’s (CSO) WISE Fellowship starting in September 2017. The programme launched in conjunction with International Women’s Day last year, attracted over 50 applications from female healthcare scientists who will act as role models to inspire the next generation of […]
Two award-winners from the world of television news and documentaries will host this year’s NHS Health and Innovation Care Expo. Gavin Esler, a familiar face as a former news reader and presenter of the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight, will share the compere duties with Jenny Kleeman who specialises in hunting down and telling […]
People could get discounts off their shopping in exchange for exercising as part of plans that have won an international healthy living challenge laid down by NHS England. The Healthy New Towns programme was launched in March 2016, with ten housing developments chosen to put good health at the heart of urban design and planning. […]
NHS England is set to expand the GP workforce with the acceleration of an international recruitment programme, following a series of regional pilots. Working with partners it will start to recruit around 600 overseas doctors into general practice in 2017/18 and aim for a total of at least 2,000 doctors over the next three years. […]
A nationwide pilot to help NHS whistleblowers back into work is being launched today by NHS England. The Whistleblowers Support Scheme will offer a range of services including career coaching, financial advice and mediation for primary care staff who have suffered as a result of raising concerns about NHS practice. Working Transitions has been appointed […]
NHS Digital has today launched its first ever e-nursing week in support of the campaign for a digital-ready workforce. It comes as it also endorses the Royal College of Nursing’s campaign “Every nurse an e-nurse”, and pledges to play a supporting role in realising its ambition. It is estimated that in many settings nurses provide […]
Lessons learned by the NHS from the Manchester and London terror attacks earlier this year will be revealed at Expo 2017. Speaking at Manchester Central, just a mile from the arena where 22 people died and 120 were injured in a bomb blast at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in May, Professor Chris […]
NHS England has today announced that the country’s Chief Nurse, Professor Jane Cummings, will take charge of the London region until a permanent Regional Director is recruited. Anne Rainsberry, the current Regional Director will step down from her role in the autumn, Professor Cummings will lead the London region from 18 September. Jane will continue […]
A doctor who retraced the voyage of Captain Bligh, cast adrift following the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty, is the latest guest speaker to sign up for Expo 2017. Dr Luke Kane, a trainee GP in London, became famous earlier this year after appearing in the Channel 4 documentary “Mutiny” in which a crew of […]
Nine nominees make up the final shortlist for this year’s Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards. The finalists were selected from 117 entrants in the three award categories. Now in their third year the awards were set up by Kate Granger, the terminally ill doctor who worked tirelessly to raise awareness around compassion in the NHS […]