NHS England has published a series of quick guides around urgent care. The Director of Policy for the Care England charity looks at how they can help health teams work more closely: Working to ensure people get the care and support they need this winter, will require strong partnership working between the independent care sector […]
Since the publication of this blog Dr Martin McShane has left NHS England. NHS England’s National Medical Director for Long Term Conditions says a whole system approach is needed for patients with these agonising conditions: Sometimes we don’t appreciate how important something is until we haven’t got it. Musculoskeletal health and mobility is one of […]
We are taking an exciting step forward in our journey towards people-powered health. At its meeting last Friday, the Board of NHS England approved a new patient and public participation policy and statement of arrangements. It also committed to further action to seek out, listen and respond to people’s views on the NHS. As the […]
Improvements are being made to the part of the Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) system that GP practices use to submit their monthly Friends and Family Test data. Practices had fed back over the past few months that they wanted to be able to go back into the system before the submission deadline to amend […]
The agenda, minutes and meeting papers for the Equality and Diversity Council (EDC) meeting held on 20 October 2015.
A national training programme to nurture England’s most inventive and innovative clinicians will open for applications on Wednesday 11 November 2015. Integrated Clinical Entrepreneur Training, developed and managed by NHS England and Health Education England, is designed to keep the most forward-thinking, entrepreneurial clinicians within this country, bringing the benefit of cutting-edge new treatments and […]
NHS England has today published an interim clinical commissioning policy on the use of adalimumab for children with severe refractory uveitis, recommending its use for patients who meet the clinical criteria it sets out. This policy will benefit children for whom uveitis threatens their sight, and for whom other treatments have proven ineffective. A policy […]
Tim Kelsey will today drive home important messages for the public as part of the high profile Stay Well This Winter campaign. NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information will highlight the need for people to help the NHS this winter by taking care of themselves and others when he addresses the Annual Self […]
This document describes how the NHS in England will be properly prepared for dealing with incidents and emergencies.