Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, today welcomed changes heralding an era of much greater alignment across the national bodies as set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View. He said: “The appointment of NHS England’s Vice Chairman Ed Smith as the new Chair of Monitor/TDA, alongside a globally respected clinician of Ara […]

Updated guidance has been published to help make the NHS’s biggest patient feedback tool, the Friends and Family Test, more inclusive. The new guidance covers services across the NHS that are provided to children and young people – with special provisions for looked after children – as well as patients with learning disabilities, dementia, language […]

NHS England is pleased to announce two senior appointments to ensure employees from black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds have equal access to career opportunities and receive fair treatment in all NHS workplaces. Following a competitive selection process, Yvonne Coghill OBE has been appointed as Director, Workforce Race Equality Standard Implementation, and Roger Kline has […]

More than £150,000 will be awarded to new ideas to address England’s biggest healthcare challenges in the first wave of this year’s NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes. The Challenge is part of a broader drive to embed innovation across the NHS which includes the NHS Innovation Accelerator and Test Bed programmes, the vanguard sites around the […]

Earlier this week HSJ announced the 50 foremost patient and citizen leaders in healthcare at the Patient Safety Congress in Birmingham. The inaugural patient leaders awards recognise the role that patients and citizens play in driving improvements in healthcare by shaping national policy, influencing the NHS nationally and making waves through being involved in their […]

Frontline workers today heard the latest from the Mental Health Taskforce. Around 350 delegates to this year’s National Recovery and Outcomes Conference were addressed by the taskforce’s chair, Paul Farmer, chief executive of Mind, and Jacquie Dyer, the taskforce’s vice-chair. Paul and Jacquie explained the Taskforce’s aim is to create a five-year national strategy for […]

NHS England has today promised rapid and sustained action to tackle the over-prescribing of psychotropic drugs to people with learning disabilities after three separate reports highlighted the need for change. Research commissioned by the health body and delivered in three reports from the Care Quality Commission, Public Health England and NHS Improving Quality has found […]

A Patient Safety Alert has been issued by NHS England to ensure ambulance satellite navigation systems are up-to-date. Read the full patient safety alert on ambulance dispatch and satellite navigation systems.

A stage one alert has been issued to ensure ambulance satellite navigation systems are up-to-date. Ambulance dispatch and satellite navigation systems Ambulances are expected to provide a rapid response to life-threatening situations. If delayed, this can impact on patient safety and outcome. Ambulance vehicles should have satellite navigation systems that assist crews to identify the location of the […]

On 9 July the NHS England Personal Health Budget Delivery Team will be hosting a discussion on Twitter to discuss the further rollout of personal health budgets, and the support that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) need to deliver this well. All CCGs need to be able to offer personal health budgets to adults eligible for […]