Following the Health Select Committee evidence session today, NHS England are publishing the technical briefing that sits alongside the Five Year Forward View financial assessment of the NHS.  

NHS England has announced it will recommission the Community Pharmacy Seasonal Influenza Vaccination programme in 2016/17, after nearly a quarter of a million more people benefited from vaccinations in a community pharmacy setting during the previous year. A total of 10,407,913 seasonal flu vaccinations were delivered in 2015/16. This included 240,259 additional patients who chose […]

Attributes of a medical appraisal vehicle, for consideration by appraisal vehicle providers

It’s that time again! The Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards will be three years old in September and this year it would be so fantastic for the awards to grow even bigger. Celebrating and rewarding colleagues in the NHS, who work incredibly hard every day to provide outstanding care to their patients, has an extremely […]

The Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards will again take centre stage at this year’s Health and Care Innovation Expo. 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 Expo 2016 being staged at Manchester Central on September 7 and […]

NHS England has launched a 30 day public consultation on two proposed new clinical commissioning policies for specialised services – specifically Rituximab for the treatment of Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome (PSS) in adults, and Rituximab in Connective Tissue Disease associated Interstitial Lung Disease in adults. There has already been extensive engagement on these policies. They have […]

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 […]