Patients across England are set to benefit from a £350 million investment in GP services, announced today (27th March 2015). The 2015/16 funding will deliver on the promise of a new deal for primary care, as highlighted in the NHS Five Year Forward View. Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund – second wave pilots An additional 37 […]

Baroness Julia Cumberlege is to lead a major review of maternity services which is set to modernise care for women and babies across the country, NHS England announced today. The programme of work will assess current maternity care provision and consider how services should be developed to meet the changing needs of women and babies. […]

The new Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) assurance framework for 2015/16 has been published today. CCGs were established on 1 April 2013 and are clinically-led statutory bodies that commission local healthcare services. The new framework describes the assurance process which supports CCGs to commission safe, high quality and cost effective services for patients. It includes a […]

Local ‘test beds’ to trial new ways of improving care for patients as part of NHS Five Year Forward View. A worldwide call has today (Thursday 26 March) been launched for innovators to partner with local health and care systems in trialling new technologies, digital services and other innovations with the potential to deliver big […]

Seize the moment for major improvements in mental health and wellbeing says Stevens The tide of public opinion is shifting in favour of dramatically improved mental health services,  Simon Stevens says as he launches a new taskforce to forge change. As signalled in the NHS Five Year Forward View, a new Taskforce is being established […]

Thursday 26 March 2015 at Leeds, Quarry House, at 10am. View a live stream of the board meeting Copies of the board papers have also been made available

A new programme to get doctors into General Practice has been launched today with the backing of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), NHS England, Health Education England and the BMA. The Induction and Refresher scheme is designed to support GPs who have previously been in practice to introduce them back into the workforce. […]

NHS England has today (24 March 2015) launched a 30 day public consultation on a number of clinical commissioning policies and service specifications for specialised services. The 33 policies, five service specifications and two other commissioning products (Chemotherapy algorithms for multiple myeloma and UK Genetic Testing Network new test recommendations) will be open to a 30 […]

The Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care are to be staged for the second successive year at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015. Named after Kate Granger, the terminally ill doctor who has worked tirelessly to raise awareness around compassion in the NHS through her #hellomynameis social media campaign, the awards will be made at […]

NHS England will today (24 March) launch a ground breaking initiative to help treat depression and anxiety and improve access to psychological therapies by unveiling the first ever directory of NHS-endorsed digital mental health services. The Mental Health Apps Library will go live at 12.00pm and feature online tools, resources and apps that have a proven […]