This document outlines our objectives to 2020.

On 12 April, the NHS England Board agreed Putting Patients First: the NHS England Business Plan for 2013/14-2015/6. We have set ourselves three interim equality objectives for April to October 2013, which will ensure that our own policy making, decisions and activities are compliant with the public sector Equality Duty, and provide system leadership to […]

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley today set out new care objectives for the improvement of health and healthcare, with the publication of a draft mandate – Our NHS care objectives:  a draft mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board – which sets out the expectations for the health service and marks the move to a more patient […]

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley sets out the Government’s strategic objectives for the NHS Commissioning Board Authority and the basis against which the Authority will be held to account. Read more on the Department of Health website See the letter from Andrew Lansley to Professor Malcolm Grant, Chairman, NHS Commissioning Board Authority.

Name of Product Antimicrobial Resistance Dashboards – Aggregated Data Type of Data used in the Product The data processed in this Product does not contain any Personal Data. It uses only Anonymous Aggregated Data. Broad Description of Product This Product produces dashboards using Anonymous Aggregated Data to explore trends in resistance levels to key antibiotics […]

Name of Product Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Aggregated Data Dashboard– Pseudonymised / De- identified Data. Broad Description of Product This Product produces dashboards on: hospital admission trends for patients with a bacterial infection and/or sepsis, prescribing trends in primary care, and patients prescribed multiple antibiotics. This is part of the NHS England’s Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Programme. […]

The scale of the NHS commercial sector is huge. We are one of the biggest commercial organisations in the country, responsible for around £30 billion of spend every year, with over 80,000 suppliers. We are the largest area of government procurement spend, fulfilling 8 million orders annually, supporting frontline staff to provide world-class care to […]

It’s been just over a year since integrated care boards (ICBs) took on their statutory functions, and progress through collaboration in the area of medicines and pharmacy has been very positive. The publication in March 2023 of the new action plan on prescribed medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal symptoms was the culmination of close […]

This guidance sets out 16 national medicines optimisation opportunities and signposts to resources to support integrated care boards (ICBs) to choose at least five to deliver alongside their local medicines optimisation priorities. The list of 16 is not provided in any priority order and reflects the breadth of opportunities that can be selected by ICBs […]

For all of my 21 years as a clinical leader, I’ve spent time trying to create the systems and galvanising colleagues to use improvement methodologies in order to improve outcomes for patients. In April 2023, Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive of NHS England, launched NHS IMPACT (Improving Patient Care Together) – the new single, shared approach to improvement. […]