A new health and social care system is key to Greater Manchester’s devolution strategy. Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, spelled out the importance of a new look health care model as, together with Sir Malcolm Grant, NHS England’s Chairman, he opened the Health and Innovation Expo 2015. Addressing more than 5,000 […]
Rowan Munson and Amy Frounks, members of the NHS Youth Forum, share details of the latest campaign they plan to launch at Expo 2015: At our first NHS Youth Forum residential in 2014 we pinpointed the fact that health care rights were not often explained to young people. Consequently they had conflicting information around important […]
More than 20,000 people have given their views on the top priorities for reshaping mental health services as part of a drive to develop a five year national NHS strategy for people of all ages. Better access to high quality services, a wider choice of treatments, more focus on prevention, more funding and less stigma […]
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens will today (Wednesday 2 September) kick-start a major drive to improve the health and wellbeing of 1.3m health service staff, in a bid to benefit both staff and taxpayers. Speaking at the NHS Innovation Expo conference, Mr Stevens will set out how NHS organisations will be supported to help […]
The NHS will urge health and social care leaders to end the unnecessary reliance on paper in the treatment of patients and make services safer, more effective and efficient. The NHS will announce new measures to help the patients, the public and clinicians make more use of technology to improve the health of the nation. […]
Since the publication of this blog Tim Kelsey has left NHS England. In April, England became the first country in world to offer citizens the ability to access their GP records online and other digital services in primary care. In the first quarter of this year, more than 3.7m repeat prescriptions were ordered online. More […]
A major report published this week shows us the size of the prize for the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP). The report by the National Cardiovascular Intelligence Network has analysed five years of data from the Health Survey for England and estimates that 5million people over the age of 16 in England are at […]
Details of external meetings held by NHS England and NHS Improvement National Directors with non-NHS/non-public sector organisations. This information is published on a quarterly basis.
NHS England’s Director of Nursing looks ahead to the keynote speech being delivered at Expo 2015 by Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England: This is an exciting time to be talking about what the shape of health and social care could look like. We can take the opportunity presented in the changing landscape to […]
Dr Kate Granger has revealed how she thought her #hellomynameis campaign would amount to “one or two tweets”. Her compassionate care crusade has since turned into a global phenomenon and is followed by 38,000 people around the world, with #hellomynameis receiving more than 800 million Twitter impressions. The hellomynameis.org.uk website gets around 100 hits per […]