NHS England has today published its first set of monthly data covering key areas of urgent and emergency care, cancer treatment and patient waiting times. This follows a recommendation from Sir Bruce Keogh to NHS England’s Chief Executive Simon Stevens in a letter published in June entitled ‘making waiting times work for patients’. NHS England’s […]
Age UK’s Integrated Care project team manager gives a taste of what the charity will be presenting at Expo 2015’s Pop Up University: At Age UK, we are passionate about making the UK a great place to grow old and to make it possible for everyone to truly love later life. One group who may […]
We would like to make clear that the article published by the Daily Telegraph, ‘Tesco can see your medical records’ contains a number of inaccuracies. The Summary Care Record (SCR) is used by healthcare professionals, on explicit consent of the patient, to support direct patient care. While a regulated healthcare professional may have secure, controlled […]
Following a four month return-to- practice course, Siobhan returned to frontline nursing last year after a 23-year break. She works two days a month in an acute setting in her own time and using NHS England volunteer days. Here she explains why she decided to return: So why am I writing this blog? – […]
An Expert Reference Group has been formed to guide the development and implementation of the NHS DPP. Membership Professor Jonathan Valabhji (Chair), National Clinical Director for Obesity and Diabetes, NHS England; Consultant Diabetologist Simon O’Neill, Director of Health Intelligence and Professional Liaison, Diabetes UK Professor Nick Wareham, Chair of Guideline Development Group for NICE PH38; […]
Two consultations published today will help to determine the future of voluntary sector involvement in health and care (7 August 2015). As part of the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) review, respondents from the voluntary and health and social care sectors will give their views on the current state of partnership working, and how […]
NHS England, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and other partners in the GP Workforce 10 Point Plan are organising a series of webinars and events to help GP practices and pharmacists understand more about its clinical pharmacists in general practice pilot. Launched on 7 July, this innovative new scheme will introduce around 250 clinical pharmacists into general […]
In the second in a series of blogs on what it means to be a New Care Models Vanguard at the forefront of change, David Stenson, on behalf of Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group, gives a patient’s perspective on the changes to his local services and his aspirations for the impact it will have on the […]
Has your community or voluntary group been working to involve patients and the public in improving health care services? NHS England will be awarding a number of small grant awards to organisations who can tell the story of their patient and citizen involvement and engagement work in a creative and interesting way. Grants are available […]
The NHS Standard Contract is mandated by NHS England for use by commissioners for all contracts for healthcare services other than primary care. The Contract has now been updated from the 2015/16 to the 2016/17 version. A summary of the changes we have made to the Contract can be found in section 3 of the […]