On 1 April 2013, NHS England inherited responsibility for the Safe and Sustainable Review from the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts. The review, launched in 2008, was set up to transform children’s heart services to provide better care to patients and improve outcomes. There is broad consensus – among both clinicians and patient groups […]

You can see the agenda and papers for the meeting. 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 Welcome and Chief Executive’s report Part three Prioritising patients in every decision we make Part four […]

Jane Cummings, NHS England’s Chief Nursing Officer, today welcomed the positive findings in the NHS inpatient survey but urged hospitals to do more to tackle variations in the way patients perceive their care. “The NHS must get it right every time for every patient,” she said. “This survey is, on the whole, encouraging and demonstrates […]

Compassion in Practice is our joint strategy to help us to transform the care we provide, in all care and support settings, throughout England every day and for everyone. The implementation plans are a living, integral part of the strategy. We must ensure that we are responsive to the changing needs of the people we care for […]

NHS England has released two data reports relating to children’s heart surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals The original data sent to Sir Bruce Keogh by Sir Roger Boyle (this document is available on our archived website) NICOR Investigation of mortality from paediatric cardiac surgery in England 2009 – 12 (this document is available on our archived […]

View the livestream The board meeting will be broadcast live as part of our commitment to make information as accessible as possible. A separate recording of each agenda item will be published on YouTube in the next few days.

Reassurance given on immediate safety issues but hospital asked to improve monitoring of care Children’s heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary can begin a phased restart on Wednesday April 10, NHS England said on Monday April 8. It follows completion of the first-stage of a review by a multi-disciplinary independent clinical team which has been […]

NHS England today published a plan confirming our commitment to putting patients at the heart of improving care now and for future generations. Putting Patients First: the NHS England business plan for 2013/14 – 2015/16 is a three-year plan that will measure how health and care services are performing, with a strong emphasis on making […]

NHS England today gave further details of the assurances that are being sought to enable Leeds Hospital to restart children’s heart surgery next week. It stressed the Trust’s decision to pause surgery was a prudent, precautionary step. Since then a review, which started last week, has been look in detail into: mortality outcome data and […]

The next Board meeting will take place on Friday 12 April from 11.00-approximately 12.15 at our NHS England offices , 4-8 Maple Street, London, W1T 5HD. If you would like to attend, please register your interest as places are limited. Please contact nhscommissioningboard@hscic.gov.uk, by 4pm on Thursday 11 April. Please note that members of the public […]