Top tips for implementing the Friends and Family Test are part of a set of new information for dental practices that has just been published. Dentists and their teams were in the most recent NHS-funded services to start using the FFT to gather feedback from their patients, from April this year. More than 833,000 pieces […]

NHS England will begin gathering baseline data on providers’ technological capabilities for a digital maturity index. The digital maturity index will give a national picture of how far the NHS has come on its mission to make effective and meaningful use of technology and highlight areas for improvement. The digital maturity self-assessment guidance sets out […]

Commenting on the debate about the junior doctor’s contract, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director for NHS England, today said: “Junior doctors are essential to the functioning of the NHS and the clinical leaders of the future. A strike is ultimately in no-one’s interest, so I urge all junior doctors to please pay careful and considered attention to the new contractual offer set out today which if implemented correctly will address the long hours […]

The Stay Well This Winter campaign goes on the road today as it drives home vital messages to the public. The campaign is aimed at helping people prepare against the onset of winter and to raise awareness among those in key risk groups – such as the frail and elderly and those with long term […]

A stage one alert has been issued to highlight the risk of falls from hoists. Risk of death and serious harm by falling from hoists The alert has been issued following patient safety incident reports that suggest existing Health and Safety Executive (HSE) advice on safely using hoists and providing training had not always been […]

A joint patient safety alert has been issued by NHS England and the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to highlight the risk of falls from hoists. The alert has been issued following patient safety incident reports that suggest existing Health and Safety Executive (HSE) advice on safely using hoists and providing training had […]

Two leading figures heading the 100,000 Genomes Project in Oxford have told how precision medicine is changing the way we approach treatment for cancer and rare diseases. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, Professor Richard Barker and Dr Anna Schuh, associate professor of molecular diagnostics at Oxford University and director of the Oxford NHS Genomic […]

People with a learning disability and/or autism* will be supported to lead more independent lives and have greater say about the support they receive under a national plan published today to radically improve learning disability services. Central to the progress set out by the plan over the next three years will be new, high-quality, community-based […]

An independent evaluation on the first wave Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund (formerly Challenge Fund) pilots has now been published. The £50 million Fund was announced in October 2013 to help improve access to general practice and increase innovation in primary care. The twenty wave one pilots commenced in April 2014 and further funding of £100m […]

The next phase of NHS England’s £1billion Primary Care Transformation Fund promises to deliver GP premises fit for the future so patients can access more services out of hospital and in their local communities. Proposed schemes can now span more than one year. This means bigger, more ambitious projects will be possible that will help […]