You will have all seen Sir Bruce Keogh talk about the recent publication of NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review End of Phase 1 report. I have led the Review for Sir Bruce and the publication of our report sets out a vision for how we can deliver a new system of urgent and […]

Thinking back to the time before the 2004 contract, working as a GP, times were hard. We were all on call and responsible for our patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Or were we? In my part of the world we were working as co-operatives, covering ‘urgent care’.  Remember them?  We organised […]

NHS England today welcomes the publication of the Health and Social Care Centre’s Focus on Accident and Emergency. Data going back to 2004 shows how patterns of use have changed: attendances have grown by 11 per cent over four years, with 60,000 people per day using A&E services. Professor Keith Willett, Director for Acute Episodes […]

Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s medical director, explains the next steps in his plans to revamp A&E services across the country: A&E is creaking at the seams. It is not broken but it is struggling. In my view our A&E service has become a victim of its own success. It functions because people are seriously […]

NHS England today has welcomed the findings of an independent audit that shows 20 per cent more patients are now surviving severe trauma since the introduction of Major Trauma Networks in 2010. Results from the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) national audit show that 1 in 5 patients who would have died before the […]