The number of patients receiving an innovative treatment for brain tumours will more than double over the next three years as a concrete step towards the implementation of NHS England’s Cancer Strategy. NHS England has now announced the award of new contracts for stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy (SRS/SRT) – specialist forms of radiotherapy that can […]

There is only one day left to submit your bid to lead a Pop-up University workshop at the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2016. The final deadline to register for this unique opportunity is  today Friday 17 June. There are now only three months to go until Expo 2016 is staged over two days at Manchester Central […]

The head of NHS England has announced the launch of a new programme to fast-track cutting-edge innovations from across the globe to the NHS frontline. In his keynote speech to around 1,000 NHS leaders at the NHS Confederation Conference in Manchester, Simon Stevens will announce that for the first time the NHS will provide an explicit […]

NHS Confederation, NHS Clinical Commissioners, NHS Providers and the Local Government Association, have today (15 June) published a handy guide to the work vanguards are doing to engage their staff in the design and delivery of new care models. The new report – New Care Models and Staff Engagement: All Aboard aims to help spread […]

Thousands of people at high risk of Type 2 diabetes in ten areas will start to benefit from the first ever national NHS diabetes prevention programme in the next few weeks. The Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme launched in April and up to 100,000 people a year will benefit from it by 2020 and […]

In May 2016, NHS England announced it would be developing a personal health budgets model for the provision of wheelchairs. The intention is to introduce personal wheelchair budgets from April 2017, to cover everyone who accesses the current wheelchair voucher scheme, which includes those with both low level and complex wheelchair requirements. We want to […]

Over £400m of potential savings that can reduce carbon emissions by 1 million tonnes The NHS could save over £400m and cut 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions every year by 2020 through making changes that can also benefit people’s health. A new report by the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS England and Public Health […]

Commissioners must help “radically redesign” eye health services for the benefit of patients, the first-ever NHS eye health summit was told last week. CCGs at the “Demand and Capacity” conference heard that the need for change was now “critical”. Eye health leaders warned that inaction could have far-reaching social and economic consequences. National Head of […]

The winners of two of last year’s Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards say their teams and organisations have been boosted by receiving the prestige honour. The Team Award for 2015 went to Harvey’s Gang at the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, while the Organisation Award went to the Care Home ‘Ask and Talk’ (C.H.A.aT) […]

CCGs across England are due to attend the first ever national eye health summit, hosted by NHS England, today. The conference, ‘Immediate solutions to address demand and capacity pressures in the Hospital Eye Service’ will showcase innovative and collaborative service models from around the country. The event exclusively aimed at commissioners brings together leading eye […]