Greater Manchester and NHS England have today (Friday 27 February) announced groundbreaking plans around the future of health and social care with a signed memorandum agreeing to bring together health and social care budgets – a combined sum of £6bn. This trailblazing move sees NHS England, 12 NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups, 15 NHS providers and […]

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 – 27 February 2015 (document is available in our archived website).

Proposals allowing certain health professions to prescribe or supply and administer medicines for patients have been published today (Thursday) by NHS England. The proposals would apply across the United Kingdom, and would enable four groups of registered allied health professions (AHPs) – radiographers, paramedics, dietitians and orthoptists – to prescribe or supply and administer medicines, […]

The abusive behaviour of Jimmy Savile revealed in today’s reports into Stoke Mandeville and other NHS premises is truly shocking. As we said last summer, our sympathy is with the victims and we thank them very sincerely for their bravery in coming forward to talk to the investigations. Kate Lampard’s ‘Lessons Learnt’ report makes recommendations […]

NHS England is making it easier than ever before for general practice staff to report patient safety incidents. A new e-form is being launched today to enable general practice staff to quickly and easily report patient safety incidents to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) – the national patient safety incident database. Reports of […]

The 10 local authorities, 12 Clinical Commissioning Groups, 14 NHS providers, NHS England and the government can confirm they are in discussions on a groundbreaking agreement for health and social care. It is hoped that a full agreement will be reached shortly around partnership working in Greater Manchester on health and social care, recognising the […]

A new vision for dementia, announcement by the Prime Minister, has been welcomed by NHS England’s Clinical Director for Dementia Professor Alistair Burns. On Saturday, David Cameron announced the next phase of the government’s “challenge on dementia” programme. He pledged £300m of investment into dementia research over the next parliament, a new global fund on […]

NHS England has today published the results of the 2014 NHS Staff Survey. The survey collects the experiences and opinions of NHS staff on a range of matters such as job satisfaction, wellbeing and raising concerns. The annual survey saw over 255,000 responses from staff including doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, ambulance workers and non-clinical employees. […]

Thirteen enterprising projects to improve patient care have scooped an award and a share of £650,000 in the NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes. Winners, who got up to £100,000 each, included an SMS helpline for self-harm, a ‘microbiologist in a smartphone’, lessons on diabetes in the classroom and multi-lingual nurses in clinics. Fifty two of the […]

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 – 20 February 2015 (document is available on our archived website).