NHS Change Day 2015 is up and running and the pledges of support have been pouring in. A 12-hour Changeathon webcast is currently live and running from 7am to 7pm where individuals, teams and campaigns across the NHS are talking about what they are doing for Change Day. NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens describes […]

As part of Change Day, NHS England is supporting “John’s Campaign” which supports people with dementia. The campaign calls for family and carers of people with dementia to be allowed to remain with them in hospital for as many hours of the day and night as necessary. Campaigners point to the difference between the treatment […]

The NHS has today (Tuesday 10 March) chosen the first 29 ‘vanguard’ geographies that will take the national lead on transforming care for patients in towns, cities and counties across England. 269 groups of nurses, doctors and other health and social care staff from across the country put forward their ideas for how they want […]

At the end of the first full year of implementation of medical revalidation, this report provides evidence of a steadily improving picture of engagement. Senior Responsible Owner’s report for medical revalidation

NHS England and the Local Government Association today name the first eight sites that will, for the first time, blend comprehensive health and social care funding for individuals and allow them to take control of how it is used. The first wave of the Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) programme will go live on 1 April […]

Monitor and NHS England today report that 210 out of 240 NHS trusts and foundation trusts (88 percent of all NHS providers) will move to the new voluntary tariff option (the ‘Enhanced Tariff Option’) for 2015/16. They will gain their share of the improved tariff funding made available to the NHS in December’s Autumn Statement, […]

An NHS111 call handler has been praised for her work as part of International Women’s Day. Noor Rahim, who works at LCW in north-west London – one of the country’s busiest NHS111 call centres – has been publicly thanked for her prompt action in helping a woman who was in agonising pain. Noor quickly realised […]

This summary offers an overview of the system and pulls together information on waiting times in A&E, ambulance response times, daily situation reports from the NHS, and information on flu rates. Winter health check –  6 March 2015 (document is available on our archived website).

Over a third of GP-led Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) around the country have been approved to jointly commission GP services with NHS England, it has been announced today. This follows the announcement last week of the first CCGs approved to take on greater delegated responsibility for GP services and means that from 1 April, over […]

Sir Bruce Keogh has paid a return visit to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital as the impressive £75million development prepares to open this summer. NHS England’s National Medical Director met some of the doctors and nurses who have helped design the hospital and who will be caring for seriously ill or injured patients from North […]