Professor Sir Malcolm Grant has been re-appointed as Chair of NHS England. Sir Malcolm, who originally took up the post in 2011 as founding chairman of the NHS Commissioning Board which subsequently changed its name to NHS England in 2013, will continue in his role from the end of October for another three years. He […]
The NHS Five Year Forward View partners have today (31 July 2015) published an initial support package for the new models of care vanguards which were launched in March 2015. The 29 vanguards, local NHS and care consortiums which are leading on developing new and better ways of providing care to act as blueprints for […]
The board meeting was broadcast live as part of our commitment to make information as accessible as possible. You can view separate recordings of each agenda item below: Items 1 and 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 Item 6 Item 7 Item 8 Item 9 Item 10 Item 11 Items 12 -14 Board papers View the agenda […]
NHS England, the Local Government Association (LGA), and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Sevices (ADASS) have today published a new draft national framework designed to improve the care of people with learning disabilities, shifting services away from hospital care and towards community-based settings. The new draft Service Model is the latest piece of work […]
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens and the NHS Five Year Forward View partners today (Friday) announced eight new vanguards that will launch the transformation of urgent and emergency care for more than nine million people. This comes as NHS England also revealed the success of Regional Major Trauma Networks which, after they were set […]
Taking place on Thursday 23 July 2015, NHS England, Southside, London, at 10.30am. View a live stream of the board meeting Take a look at the board papers
NHS England Chief Executive, Simon Stevens, has pointed to the publication of the Five Year Forward View as one of the most significant moments of the past year. He highlights the shared direction of the NHS for the next five years as NHS England publishes its second Annual Report and accounts today. In his introduction to […]
Over the past eighteen months the Personal Health Budget Delivery Team at NHS England has been working with voluntary and community sector projects across the country, to explore best practice for partnership working in the ‘Gearing Up’ programme. The voluntary sector play an important role in the effective delivery of personal health budgets – from […]
Taskforce report aims to boost cancer survival and transform patient experience Six strategic priorities have today (Sunday) been recommended by the Independent Cancer Taskforce to help the NHS achieve world-class cancer outcomes. The cancer report outlines how an additional 30,000 patients every year could survive cancer for 10 years or more by 2020. Of these, around […]
The next Board meeting will take place on 23 July 2015, Southside London, at 10.30am. If you would like to attend, please register your interest at 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 being held […]