Despite a growing workforce, NHS staff are under real pressure. The number and complexity of the patients they care for continues to increase. Some geographies and types of job are hard to recruit to. Further challenge arises from ongoing pay restraint and uncertainty for our international staff. Perhaps surprisingly, given these well understood pressures, frontline […]
The NHS Five Year Forward View pointed out that one in four of us will experience mental health problems, and mental illness is the single largest cause of disability. Yet mental health services have for several decades been the ‘poor relation’ compared to acute hospital services for physical conditions. Fortunately there is now good evidence […]
Next year the NHS turns 70. New treatments for a growing and aging population mean that pressures on the service are greater than they have ever been. But treatment outcomes are far better – and public satisfaction higher – than ten or twenty years ago. With waiting times still low by historical standards but on […]
Writing online ahead of the publication of Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View, Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s Charity Director, said: Flicking through the TV listings last weekend I noticed ‘Carry on Matron’ was on – again. Have you noticed how in British films from the 1960s and 1970s the hospital patients are […]
The King’s Fund recently hosted a roundtable event which brought together health and care system leaders from across England. The discussion focused on the role of Integrated Personalised Commissioning and how it help deliver a truly integrated NHS service with real choice for people who need it most. Sam Bennett reflects on the day and […]
Self Care Week saw Anu Singh, NHS England’s Director of Patient and Public Involvement and Insight, as a keynote speaker at two major Realising the Value events. The events were the launch pad for a series of practical resources for the implementation of supported self care. Here she reflects on the next steps for ensuring […]
Prior to joining NHS England my focus was on growing a group of GP practices across London, mainly comprised of over a dozen struggling practices we turned around. Each one came with its own history and needed its own unique support package including clinical, financial and operational solutions. It was much harder and took far […]
NHS England today agreed new steps to implement plans to strengthen general practice, ease the pressure on GPs and improve services for patients. The measures aim to help struggling GP practices, protect GPs from the rising cost of negligence claims and introduce new models of care that will create more joined-up services. It follows the […]
NHS England’s Chief Allied Health Professions Officer gives an update on the AHPs Online Workshop and why it is important to take part: It’s been a week since I launched the online workshop to engage the Allied Health Professions to co-create and shape the vision for the future that will support and drive AHPs transformative […]
The head of NHS England today (Thursday) sets out a multi-billion plan designed to get general practice back on its feet, improve patient care and access, and invest in new ways of providing primary care. Publishing a General Practice Forward View – developed with Health Education England and in discussion with the Royal College of […]