The board meeting was broadcast live as part of our commitment to make information as accessible as possible. You can view separate recordings of each agenda item below: Parts one and two Part three Parts four and five Parts six and seven Part eight Parts eight to eleven Board papers View the agenda and board papers

NHS England is set to target “shockingly low” diagnosis rates of dementia in England in a move that could see tens of thousands of people identified and treated each year. The announcement of the drive to completely overhaul dementia diagnosis was made today by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia […]

NHS England is to host its first NHS Values Summit on Friday 17 May. The event, which is being held in Bristol, will enable leaders from health and social care and staff, patients and local community representatives to share insights into how people’s differences can affect their experiences, quality of care and health outcomes. Prof […]

In the first ever system-wide ‘shared commitment’, NHS England as one of the key national partners in the National Collaboration for Integrated Care and Support has signed up to a series of commitments on how we will help local areas integrate services. Minister of State for Care Services, Norman Lamb, said: “People don’t want health […]

Health sector regulator Monitor and NHS England are working together to reform the way NHS services are paid for. Hospitals are currently paid through the Payment by Results system, which has been in operation for nearly a decade and has delivered benefits. However feedback from the health sector is that the current system is not […]

Plans to strengthen performance in urgent and emergency care are being put in place across the country to help hospital A&E departments meet demand and tackle waiting time pressures. Read the A&E improvement plan and accompanying letter to staff. (these documents are no longer available here but can be found on the National Archives website) […]

Detailed data about the first four of the 14 hospitals involved in the Keogh Review into mortality rates have been made public. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s national review team has analysed information from across the NHS about all of the 14 hospital trusts who were identified in February as having had higher-than-expected mortality rates for […]

The Interim CCG Assurance Framework for 2013/14 (this document is no longer available here but can be found on the National Archives website) published today will help NHS England, patients and the public identify how well Clinical Commissioning Groups are performing in their role as the commissioners of local health services. CCGs are accountable to […]

NHS England has today launched a series of web pages dedicated to each of the 74 specialised services Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs). CRGs cover the full range of specialised services and are responsible for providing NHS England with clinical advice regarding these directly commissioned services. The CRGs are made up of clinicians, commissioners, Public Health […]

 NHS England has today at its board meeting reassured patients that a good NHS 111 service is now operating in most of the country.   The performance standards which have been introduced for NHS 111 represent a gold standard which the majority of NHS 111 services in England are now meeting, though in some areas performance […]