The year has started with a big push for us on two pieces of work with providers and commissioners. Together they provide assurance of what is being done across the country to meet the new standards for care. Assurance relating to existing services – the new standards take effect in April, and NHS England has […]
This report from the national commissioning panel covers submissions from Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) providers and forms part of the development of proposals for a network based delivery model.
Welcome to my second blog on congenital heart disease. As you know we are now the Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) commissioning and implementation programme, so our work is no longer about reviewing. Our focus now is on what needs to happen to meet the new CHD standards and make them a reality. We continue to work […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Welcome to my final blog for the congenital heart disease review; a blog in two parts. In the second part of this blog Will Huxter, the senior manager now responsible for the work, will introduce himself and explain how NHS England is taking […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. In July 2013 the Board of NHS England accepted responsibility for a new review of CHD services, and outlined the approach we would take. Almost exactly two years later, on 23 July 2015, we are bringing a report back to our Board, which […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Your feedback Welcome back! One or two of you said you missed the blog during the restricted election period so – by “massive public demand” – it’s back. We have been continuing the work of the review, finalising the proposed standards, discussing with […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Your feedback We’ve been asked whether NHS England can “look under the bonnet” of the independent report on our recent consultation – for example, can we see the detail of individual responses? The answer is yes, we can. Our review team has already […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. I am pleased to announce the publication of the independent report ‘Consultation on draft standards and service specifications for the congenital heart disease service‘ which has been produced by Dialogue by Design. The report has been published on Dialogue by Design’s website. This […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Nature abhors a vacuum, so I try to keep blogging regularly, in case you think we have gone away or eased up on the work of the review. We haven’t. But there really is not a lot to report this week in terms […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Welcome to the first blog for 2015. It’s been a month since the last one – I thought I should allow you to enjoy the festive season in peace! However, the work on the review has not stopped and we continue where we […]