NHS England will next week launch its first national public-awareness campaign in a bid to persuade people not to store up health problems and to seek advice early. The eight-week campaign – called The earlier, the better – starts on Monday 20 January and aims to help nip health problems in the bud and reduce unnecessary […]
Thinking back to the time before the 2004 contract, working as a GP, times were hard. We were all on call and responsible for our patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Or were we? In my part of the world we were working as co-operatives, covering ‘urgent care’. Remember them? We organised […]
A further £150 million will be distributed around England to help hospitals maintain their A&E services over winter. This is in addition to the £250 million targeted to the most at-risk areas in September. The distribution of the extra £150 million will include those communities that are not deemed the most at-risk, to bolster and […]
The Sheffield University study took place in the original four pilot NHS 111 areas and its results were used to design the current service. However, the study is now significantly out of date and is not directly comparable to the current 111 service. NHS 111 provides a good service to the public and more people are […]
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 […]
Simon Bennett, NHS England’s Deputy Director Quality Framework Team, examines the issues surrounding 24/7 care: I want to focus on two things in this latest blog – the NHS Services, Seven Days a Week Forum as it prepares to publish its initial insight and evidence later in the autumn, and NHS England’s recent AGM. The […]
Professor Keith Willett is today taking part in a live online debate about seven day services. The question and answer session will take place on the HSJ’s website and is part of its on-going coverage of the seven day services debate. It recently ran an online “conversation” about 24/7 care and received more than 6,000 […]
The NHS Services, Seven Days A Week Forum has reached a significant milestone, with each of the five work streams reporting on their initial findings. The remit of the work streams is to consider seven day a week provision in urgent and emergency care and in diagnostics. The work streams are: • Clinical Standards – led […]