Thinking like a patient, acting like a taxpayer – from NHS challenges to new solutions? We meet here in Liverpool at a defining moment in the history of our National Health Service. A time when the standards of care for the vast majority of our patients in the vast majority of our communities continues to […]

NHS England has produced a toolkit called ‘Any town’, which using high level health system modelling, allows clinical commissioning groups to map how interventions could improve local health services and close the financial gap. It is an additional guide to help commissioners with their five-year strategic plans, showing how a typical CCG could achieve financial […]

An innovative team helping prisoners with long term lung conditions breathe better and feel better have won a Nursing Times Award for their flag ship project. The group of six, who all work at Maidstone Prison, scooped the Respiratory Award 2013 prize after diagnosing more prisoners with conditions like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), helping […]

Winter is often a magical time of year. For many, the festive period and New Year is a time for celebrating and spending time with family and friends.  For many, however, winter time can also often be a source of concern and worry.  People with respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or […]

Mike Morgan, National Clinical Director for Respiratory for NHS England We are getting to that time of year where sniffs, coughs, colds and sneezes start to become the sounds of everyday life.  And while for most of us, a cough or a cold might mean a day or two off work, for those with respiratory […]

“Look after yourself this winter. If you know someone who is frail or elderly or has a serious health problem, then help look after them too.  Help or encourage them to go to their pharmacy or GP before one problem leads to another and they end up in hospital.” Senior clinicians at NHS England today […]

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 […]