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 […]

NHS England’s Chief Executive Simon Stevens and National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh have announced the successful applicants of the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme – a scheme to make evidenced healthcare innovations more widely available to patients. Simon Stevens, NHS England’s Chief Executive, said: “There are, as I see it, two challenges for innovation: how […]

Aims to support GPs in areas with biggest primary care workload pressures. A new £15m scheme to fund, recruit and employ clinical pharmacists in GP surgeries has been launched today by NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens. The three year initiative, which will go live this year, will give patients the additional support of an […]

NHS England is sponsoring the first HSJ Patient Leader Awards to be announced at the Patient Safety Congress in Birmingham today. It is the latest category of the health service magazine’s Top 50 awards – with 50 patient leaders around the country being recognised. Giles Wilmore, Director for Patient and Public Voice and Information, explained […]

NHS England’s Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh will today (Monday 6 July) announce the successful applicants of a scheme to make evidenced healthcare innovations more widely available to patients. Seventeen healthcare pioneers from the UK and abroad have been identified to receive national support to roll out their technologies, processes and models of care to […]

The Transforming Care Delivery Board, comprising NHS England, the Local Government Association (LGA), the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Health Education England (HEE) and the Department of Health has today published a Progress Report (also in easy read (this document is no longer available here but can […]