A thousand people every year in Durham will be offered a chance to change their lives and avoid developing Type 2 diabetes in a new scheme to target people at high risk. The Just Beat It programme sees people offered long term help with diet and high intensity exercise to reduce their chances of getting […]
A specialist from Durham’s trailblazing ‘Just Beat It scheme’ preventing hundreds of people from developing Type 2 Diabetes says ‘it’s about the mind-set not just numbers on the scales’. The Just Beat It! Team sees up to 65 regular clients a week across Durham and the surrounding areas, delivering education around lifestyle intervention and exercise […]
More than 2,000 people at high at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in Bradford have been given a helping hand to change their lifestyles in the first stages of a drive to improve health in the city. Over the last two years ‘Bradford Beating Diabetes’ (BBD) has contacted 2,300 people they knew to be […]
The board meeting was broadcast live as part of our commitment to make information as accessible as possible. You can view separate recordings of each agenda item below: Please note: due to a technical issue the sound quality videos Item 4 and Item 5 has been affected. If you have difficulty hearing the discussion, please turn on closed […]
In the latest of a series of blogs on Personal Health Budgets, mother Angela Lane explains how they come with their challenges but working through the teething problems is well worth it: My daughter Cherry has Rett syndrome, which is a rare condition that affects brain development and causes physical and mental disability. We have […]
Patients in England are on course to use online services offered by their local GPs to arrange more than 10 million appointments and order more than 15 million prescriptions in this financial year, NHS England’s digital lead revealed today (2 December 2015). Based on HSCIC activity figures six months into the year, it is also […]
Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England, opened her fourth CNO Summit reflecting on the achievements of the previous year and looking forward towards a new vision and strategy. The CNO Summit is an annual event bringing together senior nursing, midwifery and care leaders from across England to discuss some of the key issues […]
In accordance with the Board decision, the agenda and papers from the NHS England Private Board meetings are being published one year after the meeting. Some papers may be redacted in line with the exemptions set out in the Freedom of Information Act. These documents relate to the board meeting conducted in December 2014.
NHS 111 has received excellent satisfaction ratings in a new service evaluation survey. Led by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health RCPCH , in partnership with NHS England, The Health Foundation and the Picker Institute, the review of 111 services in North West London revealed 84% of people calling the helpline ‘got what […]
Article amended, 3 December 2015, to correct an error in paragraph 18. A ‘groundswell of commitment and energy’ will help transform children and young people’s mental health services (CYPMH), a top NHS official will tell England’s Chief Nurses. Karen Turner, NHS England’s Director of Mental Health, will outline some of the changes expected to CYPMH […]