A campaign launched today aims to raise awareness of how patient feedback is helping drive continuous improvement in NHS services. The Friends and Family Test (FFT) Spotlight Week will include a range of promotional activities across England over the next five days aimed at giving fresh impetus to FFT which has already gathered 17million pieces […]

NHS England has today (11 March 2016) launched a 30 day public consultation on a number of proposed new products for specialised services, (including service specifications and clinical commissioning policies). There has already been extensive engagement on these national specifications and policies. They have been developed with the support and input of lead clinicians and […]

Champion sportsman, Times columnist and author of bestseller Black Box Thinking, Matthew Syed, will be a key speaker at Health and Care Innovation Expo 2016. Matthew is the latest person to join a star-studded line-up of national and international leaders at Expo 2016, which returns to Manchester Central on 7-8 September. His second book, Black […]

NHS England has today launched the world’s largest healthcare incentive scheme for hospitals, family doctors and other health service providers to prevent the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. Launched against the backdrop of the International Patient Safety Conference taking place at Lancaster House in London today, funding will be made available to hospitals and other […]

NHS England has set aside £55 million to reward GPs and hospitals to switching to making referrals digitally by 2018, calling time on the practice of referring patients to hospital by second class post. At the moment around 50% of patients are referred for hospital appointments electronically.  It is intended this will increase rapidly to […]

NHS England has issued an update on the industrial action by junior doctors that is taking place today. NHS trusts have reported today that 44% [1] of junior doctors have reported for duty on the day shift. (Around 26,000 junior doctors would be at work on a typical day). Combining junior doctors, other doctors and […]

NHS England today said it is doing everything possible to ensure safe emergency care is being provided and to minimise the impact of the latest industrial action. Advice has been issued to the public and patients as junior doctors prepare to take further industrial action from 8am tomorrow – this time for 48 hours. NHS England once […]

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The spotlight will be turned on the Friends and Family Test next week (14 to 18 March) in an initiative aimed at boosting the number of people giving feedback on their NHS care and treatment. There will be a five-day mini-campaign across England with a range of promotional activities in the community – such as […]

NHS centres leading the 100,000 Genomes Project are to feature as part of Healthcare Science Week. The national event, which runs from March 11 to 20 as part of British Science Week, offers a unique opportunity to go ‘behind the scenes’ of many hospital labs and scientific facilities. It’s a chance to find out first-hand […]