NHS England has today announced a new nationwide system for purchasing expensive medical devices and implants which will see savings of over £60 million ploughed back into specialist care in its first two years. Currently NHS England spends £500 million a year reimbursing specialist units for devices such as implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) for people […]

NHS England has today announced a £1.75m investment in an innovative family-based initiative to help more people to be cared for in a home, not a hospital. The Shared Lives model will support people who have needs which make it hard for them to live on their own, by carefully matching them with a carer […]

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The Technical Guide to Allocation Formulae and Pace of Change for 2016-17 to 2020-21 revenue allocations to Clinical Commissioning Groups and commissioning areas has now been published. The technical guide sets out the methodology and actual calculation of the allocations which were agreed at the 17 December 2015 NHS England Board meeting and published on […]

NHS England has issued an update on the industrial action by junior doctors that is taking place today (Wednesday April 6). NHS trusts have reported today that 46% [1] of junior doctors (out of a possible 26,000 working on a typical day) have reported for duty on the day shift. Combining junior doctors, other doctors […]

This update follows a joint statement issued in September 2014 when NHS England and PHE announced their plans to work together to test the feasibility of developing a national palliative care clinical dataset. The feasibility work involved a number of pilot sites trialling the dataset and feedback from these sites indicate that the dataset has […]

NHS England has today said it will continue to make sure everything possible is being done to ensure safe emergency care is being provided and to minimise the impact of the action. But it once again expresses regret for the disruption patients will face and the fact that thousands of planned procedures will have to […]

The National Congenital Heart Disease Audit has been published by The National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) and shows very good outcomes for congenital heart surgical operations as well as improvements in antenatal detection of infant heart problems. Responding to the audit, Michael Wilson, Programme Director for the Congenital Heart Disease Programme said: “NHS […]

NHS England launched (04 April 2016) a 30 day public consultation on a number of proposed new products for specialised services (including service specifications and clinical commissioning policies), in an addition a 60 day public consultation has also been launched for the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy clinical commissioning policy. There has already been extensive […]

NHS England is today taking significant steps to make it easier for primary care staff to raise their concerns so that action can be taken and improvements made. Firstly new whistleblowing guidance has been drawn up which will now be consulted on for the next five weeks.  The guidance comes after Sir Robert Francis recommended […]