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Taking place on Thursday 23 July 2015, NHS England, Southside, London, at 10.30am. View a live stream of the board meeting Take a look at the board papers
Taking place on Thursday 23 July 2015, NHS England, Southside, London, at 10.30am. View a live stream of the board meeting Take a look at the board papers
NHS England Chief Executive, Simon Stevens, has pointed to the publication of the Five Year Forward View as one of the most significant moments of the past year. He highlights the shared direction of the NHS for the next five years as NHS England publishes its second Annual Report and accounts today. In his introduction to […]
Over the past eighteen months the Personal Health Budget Delivery Team at NHS England has been working with voluntary and community sector projects across the country, to explore best practice for partnership working in the ‘Gearing Up’ programme. The voluntary sector play an important role in the effective delivery of personal health budgets – from […]
Taskforce report aims to boost cancer survival and transform patient experience Six strategic priorities have today (Sunday) been recommended by the Independent Cancer Taskforce to help the NHS achieve world-class cancer outcomes. The cancer report outlines how an additional 30,000 patients every year could survive cancer for 10 years or more by 2020. Of these, around […]
The next Board meeting will take place on 23 July 2015, Southside London, at 10.30am. If you would like to attend, please register your interest at england.boardattendance@nhs.net. and let us know if you have any additional requirements. Please note that members of the public are welcome to attend meetings of the Board – which although being held […]
Following publication of the Report of the Morecambe Bay Investigation, Sir Bruce Keogh, National Medical Director, was asked to review the professional codes of practice of doctors and nurses and to ensure that the right incentives are in place to prevent people from covering up, instead of reporting and learning from mistakes. In a letter […]
Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, today welcomed changes heralding an era of much greater alignment across the national bodies as set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View. He said: “The appointment of NHS England’s Vice Chairman Ed Smith as the new Chair of Monitor/TDA, alongside a globally respected clinician of Ara […]
Updated guidance has been published to help make the NHS’s biggest patient feedback tool, the Friends and Family Test, more inclusive. The new guidance covers services across the NHS that are provided to children and young people – with special provisions for looked after children – as well as patients with learning disabilities, dementia, language […]
NHS England is pleased to announce two senior appointments to ensure employees from black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds have equal access to career opportunities and receive fair treatment in all NHS workplaces. Following a competitive selection process, Yvonne Coghill OBE has been appointed as Director, Workforce Race Equality Standard Implementation, and Roger Kline has […]
More than £150,000 will be awarded to new ideas to address England’s biggest healthcare challenges in the first wave of this year’s NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes. The Challenge is part of a broader drive to embed innovation across the NHS which includes the NHS Innovation Accelerator and Test Bed programmes, the vanguard sites around the […]