NHS England has today published detailed plans – drawn up with family doctors and pharmacists – to cut out prescriptions for ineffective, over-priced and low value treatments. Helping to trim hundreds of millions from the nation’s rapidly growing drugs bill will create headroom to reinvest all savings in newer and more effective NHS medicines and […]
The Dementia Care Pathway: full implementation guidance was published by the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH) in July 2018. Commissioned by NHS England, the full implementation guidance sets out key commissioning and service development touch points to support improvements in the delivery and quality of care and support for people living with dementia and […]
NHS RightCare is a programme committed to reducing unwarranted variation to improve population health. NHS RightCare is about delivering the best care to patients, making the NHS’s money go as far as possible and improving patient outcomes. All 207 local health economies are now using the RightCare approach and the programme is working at both […]
Adults who are eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) funding have had a legal right to have a personal health budget since October 2014. NHS England expects that unless there are exceptional circumstances, everyone living in their own home who is in receipt of NHS Continuing Healthcare funding will have a personal health budget. Find […]
A second annual report into race equality across the NHS has been published today (19 April). The Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) report publishes data from providers of NHS-funded care, including the voluntary and private sector, to demonstrate how they are addressing equality issues. This year’s report includes for the first time data covering nine WRES […]
NHS England will be leading a review of low value prescription items from April 2017 and introducing new guidance for Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), with a view to substantially saving NHS expenditure in this area. It follows extensive work by NHS Clinical Commissioners which identified significant areas where potential savings can be made, up to […]
Case study summary Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust aim was to develop efficiencies and improve the quality of provision in terms of the use of inpatient beds and patient flow to ensure that people of Sheffield were able to access inpatient acute and rehabilitation care when it was needed without the need for […]
The NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression programme (formerly known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, IAPT) was developed to improve the delivery of, and access to, evidence-based, NICE recommended, psychological therapies for depression and anxiety disorders within the NHS. From small beginnings in 2008, the programme has steadily grown so that nearly 1.2 […]
NHS England and NHS Improvement have been working with the other health Arms Length Bodies (ALBs) to develop the new NHS leadership framework – Developing people improving care. This is an evidence-based national framework to guide action on improvement skill-building, leadership development and talent management for people in NHS-funded roles. Read more about the framework […]
Around one in four of us have two or more long-term conditions (LTCs), often known as ‘multimorbidity’ and this rises to two thirds of people aged 65 years or over. In this joint blog, Dawn Moody and David Bramley argue multimorbidity is therefore becoming the norm. They take a look at the adverse impact this […]