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Innovative doctors and entrepreneurs get together to kick off first-ever Clinical Entrepreneur training programme
Doctors taking part in the first-ever Clinical Entrepreneur training programme will get together for the first time tonight (Monday) – and meet with the international entrepreneurs who will mentor them. Under the training programme, launched by NHS England’s National Medical Director Prof Sir Bruce Keogh at Health and Care Innovation Expo in September 2015, junior […]
Entries pour in for Compassionate Care Awards
Nominations are already flooding in for this year’s Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards. The awards, which are made to individuals, teams and organisations who demonstrate outstanding care for their patients, will be made on the first day of the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2016 being staged at Manchester Central on September 7 and 8. […]
Mental health pilot scheme doubles numbers getting key physical health checks
Four mental health trusts almost doubled the number of people getting five key physical health checks during a pilot scheme now being shared for adoption across the NHS. Hundreds of patients with serious mental illness (SMI) were part of the two-year improvement programme to improve physical care in mental health inpatient units. This saw 86 […]
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Innovative doctors and entrepreneurs get together to kick off first-ever Clinical Entrepreneur training programme
Doctors taking part in the first-ever Clinical Entrepreneur training programme will get together for the first time tonight – and meet with the international entrepreneurs who will mentor them. Under the training programme, launched by NHS England’s National Medical Director Prof Sir Bruce Keogh at Health and Care Innovation Expo in September 2015, junior doctors […]
Chemo drug optimisation to improve patient experience of cancer treatment
Tens of thousands of patients requiring chemotherapy could receive treatment closer to home under new plans set out by the health service today. Substantial savings are also expected to be reinvested in patient care over the next few years thanks to an NHS England programme led by specialist pharmacists to reduce variation in drug doses. […]
Consultation on Specialised Services clinical commissioning policies
NHS England ran a 30 day consultation on ‘Tenofovir Alafenamide for treatment of HIV 1 in adults and adolescents’ and ‘Treatment of iron overload for transfused and non transfused patients with chronic inherited anaemias’ early this year. The following documents that were part of the original suite of documents posted online as part of the […]
Giving children the mental health care they need – Dr Ann York
In the latest in our series of blogs about #mentalhealth, an NHS England (London) awareness campaign for mental health care across the capital, Dr Ann York talks the improvements being made to support young people: It’s late Friday afternoon. Susie is at the GP surgery with her daughter Lizzie, aged 15 (not real names). The GP […]
NHS England introduces new software to improve website accessibility
Marking Global Accessibility Awareness Day, NHS England has announced the addition of new software to its website to open it up to more people. The NHS England website now features Texthelp’s ‘Browsealoud’ – an innovative and free-to-use support tool which will read aloud and translate webpage content to users, allowing for a better and easier […]
NHS England sets out local NHS funding growth to 2020
NHS England today published indicative figures for how much each part of England could see its NHS budget grow by 2020, and the funding available for transformation. This will help local NHS and care leaders develop their Sustainability & Transformation plans (STPs), showing how the NHS Five Year Forward View will be implemented locally, using […]