The next Board meeting will take place on 20 November 2015, Southside London, at 10.30am. If you would like to attend, please register your interest by emailing 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 […]

NHS England has today published new guidance to help improve the care and experience of children and adults with continence issues (revised document published July 2018). Problems with the bladder affect more than 14 million people in the UK and about 6.5 million have bowel problems. In addition, 900,000 children and young people reportedly suffer […]

This vacancy is no longer available. NHS England is committed to ensuring that public and patient voices are at the centre of shaping our healthcare services. Every level of our commissioning system needs to be informed by insightful methods of listening to those who use and care about our services to inform service development. NHS […]

Some of Britain’s favourite and best known TV stars and celebrities have backed this year’s NHS winter campaign. Stay Well This Winter – a joint initiative between NHS England and Public Health England – drives home key messages to the public which it is hoped will help take the pressure off frontline services. Alan Davies, […]

Antibiotic resistant bacteria – or bacteria that can no longer be killed by our drugs – are now one of the biggest threats to health the world faces today. The problem is enhanced by overuse and misuse of antibiotics, which means we all have a role to play in solving it, whether we’re a patient, […]

More than seven million patients will soon have access to expert advice from a clinical pharmacist when they visit their GP, thanks to the expansion of a new scheme to fund, recruit and employ pharmacists in local practices. NHS England has more than doubled funding from £15m to £31m for its clinical pharmacists in general […]

Improvements are being made to the part of the Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) system that GP practices use to submit their monthly Friends and Family Test data. Practices had fed back over the past few months that they wanted to be able to go back into the system before the submission deadline to amend […]

A national training programme to nurture England’s most inventive and innovative clinicians will open for applications on Wednesday 11 November 2015. Integrated Clinical Entrepreneur Training, developed and managed by NHS England and Health Education England, is designed to keep the most forward-thinking, entrepreneurial clinicians within this country, bringing the benefit of cutting-edge new treatments and […]

NHS England has today published an interim clinical commissioning policy on the use of adalimumab for children with severe refractory uveitis, recommending its use for patients who meet the clinical criteria it sets out. This policy will benefit children for whom uveitis threatens their sight, and for whom other treatments have proven ineffective. A policy […]

Tim Kelsey will today drive home important messages for the public as part of the high profile Stay Well This Winter campaign. NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information will highlight the need for people to help the NHS this winter by taking care of themselves and others when he addresses the Annual Self […]