Patient access to records ignited a lively debate at the NHS England Expo conference today. Beverly Bryant, NHS England’s Director of Digital told the audience patient experience had been improved over the past few years by being able to do more on line including booking appointments and patient access to records. And relationships with the […]

A man who spent 25 years using a variety of mental health services co-ordinated the biggest UK gathering of people in secure care to get views on how to improve care. Ian Callaghan, who now works for Rethink Mental Illness, led a session which used voting pads to ask the 120-strong service user audience important […]

A new health and social care system is key to Greater Manchester’s devolution strategy. Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, spelled out the importance of a new look health care model as, together with Sir Malcolm Grant, NHS England’s Chairman, he opened the Health and Innovation Expo 2015. Addressing more than 5,000 […]

More than 20,000 people have given their views on the top priorities for reshaping mental health services as part of a drive to develop a five year national NHS strategy for people of all ages. Better access to high quality services, a wider choice of treatments, more focus on prevention, more funding and less stigma […]

NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens will today (Wednesday 2 September) kick-start a major drive to improve the health and wellbeing of 1.3m health service staff, in a bid to benefit both staff and taxpayers. Speaking at the NHS Innovation Expo conference, Mr Stevens will set out how NHS organisations will be supported to help […]

Dr Kate Granger has revealed how she thought her #hellomynameis campaign would amount to “one or two tweets”. Her compassionate care crusade has since turned into a global phenomenon and is followed by 38,000 people around the world, with #hellomynameis receiving more than 800 million Twitter impressions. The hellomynameis.org.uk website gets around 100 hits per […]

The Senior Fellow to NHS England’s Chief Executive reveals how Expo 2015 will see the publication of an overview of NHS England’s innovation achievements to date: In 1965 Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, made an observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would increase exponentially; doubling every 18 months. Moore’s law has […]

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will tell Expo 2015 how technology is going to change the face of health care over the next decade. The Minister’s keynote address at the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015, to be staged in Manchester on September 2 and 3, will be delivered at a significant time, coming four months […]

Some of the world’s most renowned experts in healthcare are to explore how the NHS Five Year Forward View is being turned into reality. Dr Devi Shetty, India’s leading authority on cardiac treatment, and Dr David Agus, cancer specialist and international leader in genetic research, are just two of the star speakers who will address Health […]

Dr Kate Granger is to undertake a gruelling tour to promote her #hellomynameis compassionate care campaign. Kate, 33, who has terminal cancer, will start the whirlwind roadshow on 17 June, visiting 16 healthcare organisations to meet NHS staff in just nine hectic days. She will be accompanied by her husband of 10 years, Chris Pointon, who […]