NHS England’s most senior doctors today welcomed the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s “Future Models of Care” report, setting out the much wider role pharmacists can and should play in treating and advising patients. NHS England is currently working with patients and clinicians across the country to set out how the NHS should be organised in future […]

Alistair Burns, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, explains the importance of support for people once they have been diagnosed: The need to support people with dementia, their families and carers is the next step following a diagnosis. The aim of high quality support is to ensure that people can live well with dementia […]

The National Clinical Directors and National Specialty Advisers are practising clinicians from across England who work part-time at NHS England, providing clinical leadership, advice, input and support across distinct areas of NHS conditions and services ranging from cancer and cardiovascular disease to urgent and emergency care and major trauma in line with the NHS Long […]

NHS England is committed to giving CCGs practical support in gathering data, evidence and tools to help them transform the way care is delivered for their patients and populations. Working with Public Health England and NHS Right Care, NHS England has provided every CCG with a comprehensive data pack to support effective ‘commissioning for value’. […]

Dr Ed Mitchell, Clinical Fellow to Martin McShane, NHS England’s Director for Long Term Conditions, outlines new moves to give mental health parity with physical health issues: When the historians of the future write about healthcare in the twenty-first century, they will remark upon one of the more curious aspects of our healthcare system – […]

Some of NHS England’s most influential figures are to take part in a high profile conference, The Future of Health, in London. The two-day conference, being staged by NHS England and UCL Partners  and being held at the Business Design Centre in London, will also feature some of the world’s leading experts on the care […]

In the stakeholder analysis, which you completed as part of the Coordination and Leadership phase, you will have identified Public and Patient groups as key stakeholders who you will need to engage and involve in your local implementation plans. Patient and Public Engagement within the NHS can be described as: The involvement of individual patients […]

At this stage you have agreed support from the CCG approval committee and/or board to implement Shared Decision Making across the local health economy. During the Coordination, Leadership and Stakeholder Support Stage it is useful to identify a project team who can support you in embedding Shared Decision Making in clinical teams and in commissioning […]

Alistair Burns, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia , gives his views on support for sufferers and their carers. There is rightly an emphasis on the diagnosis of dementia, articulated in the NHS England ambition that two thirds of people with dementia should receive a formal diagnosis and post diagnostic support. Of course, the […]

The Project Appraisal Unit (PAU) The NHS England Project Appraisal Unit is a small specialist central team within NHS England Strategic Finance comprising of experienced capital investment and estates professionals who will be available to provide support to officers of NHS England at local Director of Commissioning Operations (DCO) offices, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, Regional Team, […]