The Daily Telegraph has published a letter from NHS England’s Director of Patient Safety, Dr Mike Durkin, in response to their article about how Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle addresses patient safety reporting. The article describes how ten years ago, inspired by ways car workers in Japan were helped when they were struggling, the hospital […]

High-need individuals to be offered ability to control their own blended NHS and community care, in partnership with voluntary sector. The NHS will offer local councils across England a radical new option in which individuals could control their combined health and social care support, Simon Stevens CEO of NHS England will announce today. Speaking at […]

Barry Cockcroft spoke at the Westminster Health Forum seminar on oral health inequalities, dentistry commissioning, regulation and the dental contract reform. The morning’s sessions included discussion from a panel about skill-mix in general dental practice and how this can improve dental health and reassure reluctant patients, encouraging them to engage more in preventative care of […]

The “Change Day Celebration” will provide an opportunity to tell the world about the inspiring pledges and actions being taken to make a difference to health and social care. Our celebrations will continue the ethos of having no barriers to communication, no hierarchies of message and no one voice louder than anyone else’s. So put […]

Unfortunately due to technical issues at the venue, today’s livestream of the NHS England board meeting was intermittent. We apologise for this – and have now made the full video available on our YouTube channel. Watch 03 July 2014 NHS England board meeting here. You can also follow the tweets #NHSboardmeet

On 10 December 2012, the Prime Minister announced that the Government intended to achieve a paradigm shift in the way that genomics is used across the NHS. To provide the catalyst for this change and to accelerate the benefits to NHS patients stemming from innovations in genomics, the Government committed to sequencing 100,000 whole human […]

NHS England CEO Simon Stevens is today announcing a number of senior appointments to the organisation. Dr Mahiben Maruthappu has been appointed to the chief executive’s office, as the first member of a new programme providing opportunities for early and mid-career clinicians and managers to work on national strategy and operations. Dr Maruthappu is an […]

Thursday 3 July 2014, at The Nicolson Building, Birmingham.  Board meeting will start at 10.30am Watch the live stream of the Board meeting.

Today NHS England launched a survey on the uptake and use of the NHS Number as the primary patient identifier aimed at Trusts across all services. The survey – the first of its kind – will enable NHS England to create a comprehensive picture by Trusts across England of use of the NHS Number in […]

NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens will today (July 1) applaud “a major NHS success story” as new figures show about 600 more patients are surviving major trauma since changes to services in April 2012. The 16,000 life-threatening major traumas are the biggest cause of death in children and adults under the age of 40 annually.  In all, some 37,000 are seriously injured in England […]