Health and social care leaders will today (17 June) unveil detailed plans to make technology work harder and faster for patients and increase transparency across more services. Building on the successes of the last 12 months which have seen 97% of GP practices offering patients the chance to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and view […]

Empowering people and their families has been a priority for NHS England as it looks to develop and improve its learning disability services. Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England, said: giving people with learning disabilities their families and carers more say over their care was fundamental to the planning of future services. She […]

‘Hear My Voice’ is the theme of this year’s Learning Disability Week which runs from today. The week aims to give people and their families a voice in shaping services – bringing their ‘lived experience’ and perspective to NHS England’s work programme, helping to co-design new and better services. Dr Dominic Slowie, NHS England’s National […]

The first centres to treat patients with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), as part of NHS England’s latest national evaluation programme, will be able to start accepting patients from today (Monday). NHS England has invested £15m over three years to assess the use of SABR through its Commissioning through Evaluation initiative, which will allow up to […]

The latest NHS England Bulletin for CCGs includes an invitation to chief officers to sign up to a new development programme to support CCGs in widening their local offer of personal health budgets beyond NHS Continuing Healthcare. More information about the Moving Forward with Personal Health Budgets CCG Development Programme can be found on the […]

England’s Chief Nursing Officer, Jane Cummings, has today written to Nursing Directors, CCGs, ALBs and other stakeholders about the next steps in ensuring the NHS is safely staffed. CNO safe staffing letter to Directors of Nursing and other stakeholders

NHS England must continue to raise the profile of England’s carers and the vital role they play. That is the view of Dr Martin McShane, NHS England’s Director for Long Term Conditions, who has written in a blog: “England’s five and a half million carers make a critical and underappreciated contribution not only to loved […]

This article has been amended to better reflect the policy document. NHS England agrees funding for new drug treatments for Hep C In what will be the NHS’ single largest investment in new treatments this year, NHS England has today (11 June 2015) announced the budget will be increased to £190 million for new virological […]

NHS England and the Local Government Association will today (9 June) host a meeting for the nine areas pioneering blended comprehensive health and social care funding. The Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme was set out in October 2014 and went live in April 2015 with the first wave of nine demonstrator sites – enabling over […]

Dr Kate Granger is to undertake a gruelling tour to promote her #hellomynameis compassionate care campaign. Kate, 33, who has terminal cancer, will start the whirlwind roadshow on 17 June, visiting 16 healthcare organisations to meet NHS staff in just nine hectic days. She will be accompanied by her husband of 10 years, Chris Pointon, who […]