Sarah-Jane Marsh, the Chief Executive of Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Birmingham Women’s Hospital, has been appointed by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens as the Chair of the new Maternity Transformation Programme Board. The National Maternity Review: Better Births, published earlier this year, set out wide-ranging proposals designed to make care safer and give women […]

It is important that the standard of medical appraisal across England is as uniform as possible so that all doctors benefit from a similar experience and level of review. In order to achieve this it is necessary to benchmark and quality assure the process. Systems are being developed to standardise managerial and administrative processes. Responsible […]

Chief Scientific Officer Sue Hill will today (27 April) deliver an overview on how genomics and personalised medicine is set to transform the NHS at a conference in New Orleans. Headlined – Genomics, Data & Personalised Medicine – The UK Experience of Transforming Care for the Future,  the presentation will also explore aspects of the […]

NHS England has today issued an update on the industrial action by junior doctors that is taking place during April 27. In the period of industrial action on 27 April 2016 (which includes the full withdrawal of emergency cover by junior doctors), the earliest available data, reported as at 0900hrs, indicates 78% of junior doctors […]

NHS England has today issued an update on the industrial action by junior doctors that is taking place during 26 and 27 April. In the period of industrial action on 26 April 2016 (which includes the full withdrawal of emergency cover by junior doctors), the earliest available data, reported as at 0900hrs, indicates that 78% […]

The NHS is pulling out all the stops to minimise the risks to the quality and safety of care during this week’s strike, NHS England has said. NHS England asked all trust boards across the country to provide assurance that they have adequate plans in place to manage the impact of the strike, focussing on […]

The head of NHS England today (Thursday) sets out a multi-billion plan designed to get general practice back on its feet, improve patient care and access, and invest in new ways of providing primary care. Publishing a General Practice Forward View – developed with Health Education England and in discussion with the Royal College of […]

A stage two resource alert has been issued around patient safety incident reporting and responding to patient safety alerts. Patient safety incident reporting and responding to patient safety alerts On 1 April 2016 the statutory patient safety functions previously delivered within NHS England transferred to NHS Improvement. These functions are the responsibility for: operating the […]

The Chief Executive of Central and North West London NHS FT (CNWL), Claire Murdoch, has been appointed by Simon Stevens as the new NHS National Mental Health Director. NHS England’s independent Mental Health Taskforce chaired by Paul Farmer of MIND recently published its report setting out a vision and costed improvement plan for mental health […]

Three million patients have begun to access new apps, safety devices, online networks, and a host of other new technologies and services during the first nine months of a pioneering NHS programme. 68 NHS organisations are using one or more of 17 new innovations which aim to improve care by, for example, reducing clinical incidents, […]