One of the world’s leading cancer doctors says avoiding disease is key to lowering healthcare costs – with patient education and data the untapped NHS tools of prevention. Dr David Agus, who is Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California as well as a New York Times bestselling author and CBS news contributor, […]

More than £90,000 is up for grabs for fresh ideas to help address England’s biggest healthcare challenges in the second wave of this year’s NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes. The Innovation Challenge is a key part of the drive to embed innovation across the NHS, which includes the NHS Innovation Accelerator and Test Bed programmes and […]

Dr Kate Granger says the Compassionate Care Awards named after her will be her legacy to the NHS. In a moving interview, Dr Granger, who has terminal cancer, told of her pride for the awards which stemmed from her #hellomynameis campaign launched two years ago. She presented the Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards for the […]

Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England, today called on the nursing, midwifery and wider clinical professions and the public to engage with the development of a strategy to follow ‘Compassion in Practice’. Speaking at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015 conference in Manchester, she said: “We want to build this vision from what people […]

Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson has hailed an NHS programme aimed at improving the lives of wheelchair users but warned there is still more to be done. Chairing a discussion on wheelchair services at the Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester, Dame Tanni said: “I got involved in improving wheelchair services as I am a wheelchair […]

The New Care Model Vanguards are about empowering both the people they serve and the people who serve. That was the message from a panel discussion on the second day of the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015 in Manchester. 37 New Care Model Vanguards have been named so far, with a further tranche focussing […]

The NHS mantra should be: “Every patient needs a barcode”. That was the revolutionary thought outlined by Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information and Chair of the National Information Board, as he opened day two of the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015 conference in Manchester. He told delegates: “Hospitals across […]

NHS England is pleased to announce the winners of a £30,000 international challenge prize to publish or present data on obesity in a new, exciting and useful way. The NHS made it clear in the Five Year Forward View that now is the time to get serious about prevention.  The challenge to data enthusiasts was […]

The Chairman of the Mental Health Taskforce told the Health and Innovation Expo 2015 conference “we are at the start of a new era for mental health.” As he launched the Mental Health Taskforce Engagement Report at the event in Manchester, Paul Farmer, CEO of charity Mind and Taskforce Chair, said he was delighted to […]

The NHS has the opportunity to become the “go-to place for innovations”. That is the view of Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, who today refuted any suggestion that the health service is slow to embrace or develop innovations, but did concede that ii is often too slow to exploit them. Sir Bruce […]