Norfolk and Waveney STP is supporting its staff in secondary, community, primary and social care though a new health and wellbeing network that shares resources and encourages best practice. The health and wellbeing of its people is one of the four pillars of #WeCareTogether, the local people plan to make Norfolk and Waveney the best […]
Hosting virtual multidisciplinary knowledge sharing sessions is just one of the ways that the Acute Response Team (ART) service in Thanet, East Kent, is providing extra support to health and social care teams – enabling more collaboration and helping colleagues to upskill. Dr Rakesh Koria, GP lead for ART, explained: “The district of Thanet has […]
Hertfordshire is a county with a tradition for building partnerships between the voluntary and statutory sector, integrating the NHS social prescribing link workers into resilient primary care and community provision. Tim Anfilogoff, is Head of Community Resilience at Herts Valleys CCG, and NHS England’s Social Prescribing Regional Facilitator for the East of England. Here he […]
NHS England’s Medicines Value and Access function (MVA) provides the commercial capabilities to enable the NHS in England to secure innovative treatments and the everyday medicines that people rely on, in a way that achieves value for taxpayers. What are our missions? To secure patient access to clinically effective treatments in a way that delivers […]
When we talk healthcare workforce we often refer to front line staff in hospital settings. Nurses and midwives work in a variety and breadth of roles and environments from managing a service in the community to leading a university-wide sector role. At the Council of Deans of Health, the membership organisation representing the UK universities […]
To mark the International Day of Older Persons, the National Clinical Director for Older People and Person-Centred Integrated Care looks at the need to reduce inequalities for the frail and elderly: International Day of Older Persons 2019 focuses on the Journey to Age Equality, drawing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals which are a blue […]
Michael Wood, the Head of Health Economic Partnerships at the NHS Confederation discusses the links between population health and economic growth. The emergence of population health as the key mission guiding integrated care systems (ICSs) is a fascinating development. The issue is quite rightly seen as a critical enabler to achieving the aims of the […]
Case study summary Six practices in the East Dorset area are working together as a primary care network to broaden their workforce to provide a more efficient service to their patient population and to reduce waiting times for diagnostic testing. They have introduced new responsibilities for roles including clinical pharmacists undertaking medical reviews and paramedics […]
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS England, and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) have agreed a new Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. The DHSC has also issued a press release. The joint document describes a vision for how community pharmacy will support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan. In August 2021, […]
The Deputy Director of Business Intelligence at Imperial College Health Partners looks at how NHS data analysts are helping to transform health and care: They may be an army of keyboard warriors tucked away in the vaults of NHS buildings from Penzance to Carlisle and everywhere in between – but our hugely talented data analysts […]