Many hospital radio stations around the country are taking part in a national promotion to raise awareness of the importance of patient feedback to improve NHS services. As part of this week’s mini-campaign to put the spotlight on the Friends and Family Test, NHS England has produced a range of audio packages that volunteers on […]

A campaign launched today aims to raise awareness of how patient feedback is helping drive continuous improvement in NHS services. The Friends and Family Test (FFT) Spotlight Week will include a range of promotional activities across England over the next five days aimed at giving fresh impetus to FFT which has already gathered 17million pieces […]

This guidance sets out the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) scheme for 2016/17 to be offered by NHS commissioners to providers of healthcare services under the NHS Standard Contract.

In the first of a series of blogs we are running to coincide with the Friends and Family Test Spotlight Week, NHS England’s Director of Patient and Public Participation and Insight explains why we are focussing on this vital patient feedback: When it comes to this important area of our work at NHS England, we […]

England’s Chief Scientific Officer and Head of Profession for the Healthcare Science workforce in the NHS, highlights the vital role they play in delivering innovative patient care: Healthcare Science Week is a celebration of the amazing contribution that healthcare scientists make to patient care every day. The diagnostic, therapeutic and innovative services they provide are […]

As the New Care Models Programme marks its first anniversary, the Associate Director of Operations at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust and one of the partnership’s programme directors, discusses the progress they’ve made so far: Cheshire and Merseyside Women’s and Children’s Services was one of the 13 vanguards chosen in 2015 to develop future models […]

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NHS England has today (11 March 2016) launched a 30 day public consultation on a number of proposed new products for specialised services, (including service specifications and clinical commissioning policies). There has already been extensive engagement on these national specifications and policies. They have been developed with the support and input of lead clinicians and […]

Champion sportsman, Times columnist and author of bestseller Black Box Thinking, Matthew Syed, will be a key speaker at Health and Care Innovation Expo 2016. Matthew is the latest person to join a star-studded line-up of national and international leaders at Expo 2016, which returns to Manchester Central on 7-8 September. His second book, Black […]

Commissioning for Value ‘Where to Look’ packs contain personalised information for each clinical commissioning group and are used to help support local discussion about prioritisation to improve the value and utilisation of resources. Updated ‘Where to look’ packs are available.