The necessary changes have been made to The Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services) (England) Directions 2013 to allow the following things to happen: The New Medicines Service (NMS) is being extended to enable community pharmacies to continue to provide this service through to the 31st March 2014. At the request of NHS England, Department […]

Registration has opened for the most important health and care event of 2014: the Health and Care Innovation Expo. More than 10,000 people from across health and care, the voluntary sector, commissioners, clinicians, patients, thought leaders and innovators will meet at Manchester Central on 3rd and 4th March and take part in the fast-paced and […]

New clinical standards backed by rewards and sanctions NHS England’s National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh today sets out a plan to drive seven day services across the NHS over the next three years, starting with urgent care services and supporting diagnostics. He is publishing the findings of his Forum on NHS Services, Seven Days […]

This weekly 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 report 13 Dec 2013 Analysis by NHS England on A&E pressures

We have opened a 7 week consultation from Thursday 12th December until Thursday 30th January. If you require the consultation documents in large print or in a language other than English, please contact england.researchandimprovementdevelopment@nhs.net.

As part of its strategy of building informatics leadership capability, NHS England is working in partnership with the NHS Leadership Academy to provide support to 12 informatics specialists to join The Nye Bevan programme.The Nye Bevan programme is designed for senior leaders looking to move into an executive leadership role. Existing NHS staff working at […]

NHS England today (Thursday) publishes more detailed data than ever before about “never events” – the serious errors in care that put patients at risk of harm and that should not happen if full preventative procedures are in place. For the first time, provisional quarterly data on the number of never events happening at each […]

The UK hosts the G8 summit on dementia in London today (11 December 2013), which aims to develop coordinated global action on dementia and is welcomed by NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, Alistair Burns: “The Dementia G8 Summit is a fantastic opportunity to bring together a group of international leaders to discuss the […]

The next Board meeting will take place on Tuesday 17 December at NHS Southside, London. Start time is 09.30am. If you would like to attend, please register your interest at  england.boardattendance@nhs.net. and let us know if you have any additional requirements. Please note that members of the public are welcome to attend meetings of the […]

Improving Outcomes: Strategy for Cancer was published in January 2011 with the ambition to save an additional 5000 lives a year by 2014/15 and halve the gap between England and the best in Europe for survival rates. Today (10 December) the third annual report on the progress of implementation of the strategy is published. This […]