The Future of Health Conference 2014 is set to continue the debate started by the NHS Five Year Forward View published last month. Patients, healthcare professionals and the public will be given an opportunity to have their say on what the future of health care should look like. There will be a people’s panel, made […]

Patients and their long-term needs will again be the focus of this year’s Future of Health Conference. The conference, which won Best Event of the Year for 2013 at the prestigious British Media Awards, will be held on 21st November in London. The key themes will include: Personalisation and Empowerment – What are the barriers and […]

Please note a number of technical amendments have been made to the Part 2 plan template that was released on 25 July. The new template is available here, and any old versions should be discarded. A macro is also available for download for areas who have already started their Part 2 plans to avoid having […]

More than 7,000 delegates are gathering in London today for the Commissioning Show. The two-day show at the Excel will see people from all over the country meet to take part in the world-class conference programme that includes CCG Business, Area Team and Your Practice streams. Over 300 speakers will deliver legislation and policy updates, […]

Thinking like a patient, acting like a taxpayer – from NHS challenges to new solutions? We meet here in Liverpool at a defining moment in the history of our National Health Service. A time when the standards of care for the vast majority of our patients in the vast majority of our communities continues to […]

NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens today (Wednesday) sets out critical steps the Health Service must take to address head-on the challenges it faces over the next five years and beyond. The NHS faces a “defining moment” in its history, he will tell the NHS Confederation annual conference in Liverpool. “I know there are enormous pressures, […]

NHS England’s award-winning Future of Health Conference will be staged again later this year. The conference, which recently won Best Event of the Year at the prestigious British Media Awards, will be held on 21 November in London. As with last year’s event – which attracted 1,000 delegates – a People’s Panel made up of […]

NHS Confederation brings together senior decision-makers from across the whole of the health system. With over 2,000 attendees expected to attend, the conference provides the perfect forum to discuss current health policy and share innovation and best practice. Over the course of the conference, NHS England speakers will address the issues that matter for patients […]

I said on my first day in this new job that five years in to the longest period of austerity the Health Service has ever seen, the stakes for the NHS have never been higher. So far our main response to NHS budget pressures has been an enormous and successful collective effort to keep the […]

Health care professionals and patients working together is recognised with prestigious prize. When doctors Anna Moore and Ed Mitchell approached Dr Martin McShane, NHS England’s Director for Long-Term Conditions, asking if he would support them to set up the Future of Health conference, little did they imagine that 18 months later they would scoop a […]