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NHS England specialised commissioning Rare Diseases Advisory Group Patient and Public Voice partner/lay member opportunities
This vacancy is no longer available. NHS England is committed to ensuring that public and patient voices are at the centre of shaping our healthcare services. Every level of our commissioning system needs to be informed by insightful methods of listening to those who use and care about our services to inform service development. NHS […]
Stars and celebrities back NHS winter campaign
Some of Britain’s favourite and best known TV stars and celebrities have backed this year’s NHS winter campaign. Stay Well This Winter – a joint initiative between NHS England and Public Health England – drives home key messages to the public which it is hoped will help take the pressure off frontline services. Alan Davies, […]
Tackling the threat to world health posed by antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistant bacteria – or bacteria that can no longer be killed by our drugs – are now one of the biggest threats to health the world faces today. The problem is enhanced by overuse and misuse of antibiotics, which means we all have a role to play in solving it, whether we’re a patient, […]
More than 400 pharmacists to be recruited to GP surgeries by next year
More than seven million patients will soon have access to expert advice from a clinical pharmacist when they visit their GP, thanks to the expansion of a new scheme to fund, recruit and employ pharmacists in local practices. NHS England has more than doubled funding from £15m to £31m for its clinical pharmacists in general […]
Improvements to FFT data submission system for GPs
Improvements are being made to the part of the Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) system that GP practices use to submit their monthly Friends and Family Test data. Practices had fed back over the past few months that they wanted to be able to go back into the system before the submission deadline to amend […]
Clinical Entrepreneur training programme will nurture leaders of new innovation culture
A national training programme to nurture England’s most inventive and innovative clinicians will open for applications on Wednesday 11 November 2015. Integrated Clinical Entrepreneur Training, developed and managed by NHS England and Health Education England, is designed to keep the most forward-thinking, entrepreneurial clinicians within this country, bringing the benefit of cutting-edge new treatments and […]
NHS England publishes clinical commissioning policy on adalimumab for children with uveitis
NHS England has today published an interim clinical commissioning policy on the use of adalimumab for children with severe refractory uveitis, recommending its use for patients who meet the clinical criteria it sets out. This policy will benefit children for whom uveitis threatens their sight, and for whom other treatments have proven ineffective. A policy […]
Winter messages highlighted at Self Care Conference
Tim Kelsey will today drive home important messages for the public as part of the high profile Stay Well This Winter campaign. NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information will highlight the need for people to help the NHS this winter by taking care of themselves and others when he addresses the Annual Self […]
Allied Health Professionals can help build a healthier NHS
A new review from the British Dietetic Association (BDA) on building a healthy workforce is being backed by NHS England’s Chief Allied Health Professions (AHP) Officer. And Suzanne Rastrick today called on the AHP workforce to engage in the delivery of a £5million initiative to improve the health of NHS staff. The BDA’s white paper […]
Cold weather alert
Following the launch of the Cold Weather Plan for England on 15 October 2015, the Met Office will be releasing cold weather alerts from 1 November. In line with this, the current alert is at Level 1. This is the standard alert level that is in force from 1 November to 31 March and indicates […]