A new review from the British Dietetic Association (BDA) on building a healthy workforce is being backed by NHS England’s Chief Allied Health Professions (AHP) Officer. And Suzanne Rastrick today called on the AHP workforce to engage in the delivery of a £5million initiative to improve the health of NHS staff. The BDA’s white paper […]
NHS England’s Chief Allied Health Professions Officer calls on the AHP workforce to engage in the delivery of a £5m initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of health service staff: Last month NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens announced a £5m initiative to support wellbeing initiatives for his staff saying: “The NHS has got […]
A notice for CCGs regarding GPSoC and GP IT Services.
NHS England has published a series of quick guides around urgent care. Here, Eddie Crouch, Vice Chair of the British Dental Association Principal Executive Committee, looks at the guide on emergency dental care: Toothache, when severe, can be an awful experience, so preventing it or seeking appropriate help will clearly be a priority for anyone, […]
Following the launch of the Cold Weather Plan for England on 15 October 2015, the Met Office will be releasing cold weather alerts from 1 November. In line with this, the current alert is at Level 1. This is the standard alert level that is in force from 1 November to 31 March and indicates […]
As a youngster I was fit, healthy and active, regularly playing sport. Coming from an Afro Caribbean background my diet was varied and well balanced, and I considered myself – and still do – to be fit and healthy. In my late 40s I was shocked to learn, following a routine blood test, that I […]
Top tips for implementing the Friends and Family Test are part of a set of new information for dental practices that has just been published. Dentists and their teams were in the most recent NHS-funded services to start using the FFT to gather feedback from their patients, from April this year. More than 833,000 pieces […]
We are committed to giving patients the opportunity to let us know what they think about the services they use, and also using that feedback to improve services. The FFT has been designed to be flexible and efficient with very few requirements, other than to make FFT available to patients and submit monthly response numbers […]
As autumn takes hold, I wanted to take some time to reflect on the last few months which have been busy for the Maternity Review. We have made some encouraging progress and I would like to thank everyone that has been involved so far. We have had thousands of responses to our online consultation. If […]
Friends and Family Test (FFT) gives patients the opportunity to submit feedback to providers of NHS funded care or treatment, using a simple question which asks how likely, on a scale ranging from extremely unlikely to extremely likely, they are to recommend the service to their friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment. Data on all these services is published on a monthly basis.