NHS England is calling all nurses, midwives and care staff delivering the 6Cs – care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and commitment- to get involved in its first 6Cs Live! Week of Action. Throughout the year the 6Cs Live! team will be running week-long events on different themes to celebrate success as well as offer nurses, […]

NHS England is pleased to announce the appointment of a new National Clinical Director by the Medical Directorate at NHS England, Dr Dominic Slowie, NCD for Learning Disability. At the NHS Commissioning Board’s Medical Leadership Conference in March this year, the National Medical Director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, announced the appointment of 23 National Clinical […]

New arrangements for providing high quality commissioning support services are being put in place across Surrey and Sussex following a process led by local clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to choose an alternative commissioning support provider. Three commissioning support units will be taking on the services for 9 CCGs: NHS Kent and Medway Commissioning Support Unit […]

NHS England has today, for the first time, published figures showing the number of times patients have been prescribed specialist drugs that are available as part of the national Cancer Drugs Fund list. Cancer Drugs Fund list quarterly figures: April – June 2013/14 The data shows an increase in the amount of drugs prescribed from […]

A DEBATE on 7-Day Services held by the Health Service Journal’s online “Conversation” received no fewer than 6,118 contributions from 1,083 people. The keen interest in the debate goes to highlight what a major issue 7-Day Services is for the future of NHS England, its patients and key stakeholders. The online discussion, in which a […]

The Local Government Association and NHS England have today published their planning ‘vision’ for how the pooling of £3.8 billion of funding, announced by the Government in the June spending round, will ensure a transformation in integrated health and social care. The ‘Integration Transformation Fund’ is a single pooled budget for health and social care […]

NHS England has today published a letter from our Chair, Professor Sir Malcolm Grant to the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Health, providing a short update on the new review of congenital heart disease (CHD) services. The letter follows NHS England’s Board meeting held in public on 18 July, which describes […]

NHS England has today announced an update on the Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund which offers NHS Foundation Trusts and NHS Trusts access to a £260 million technology fund, after the deadline for Expressions of Interest closed on 31 July. The fund has received an unprecedented number of applications; in excess of 760 completed […]

NHS England has today welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement that local health and care systems are to receive £250m to ensure the NHS is better prepared for winter. The money will be targeted at local systems which will benefit the most from the extra funding.  NHS England, Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority and the […]

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