NHS England is pleased to announce the winners of a £30,000 international challenge prize to publish or present data on obesity in a new, exciting and useful way. The NHS made it clear in the Five Year Forward View that now is the time to get serious about prevention.  The challenge to data enthusiasts was […]

The Chairman of the Mental Health Taskforce told the Health and Innovation Expo 2015 conference “we are at the start of a new era for mental health.” As he launched the Mental Health Taskforce Engagement Report at the event in Manchester, Paul Farmer, CEO of charity Mind and Taskforce Chair, said he was delighted to […]

The NHS has the opportunity to become the “go-to place for innovations”. That is the view of Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, who today refuted any suggestion that the health service is slow to embrace or develop innovations, but did concede that ii is often too slow to exploit them. Sir Bruce […]

Leaders of NHS provider organisations in the North joined a panel on the at Health and Innovation Expo 2015 to discuss the issues facing their organisations and what the solutions are or may be – both at present and in the future. Introduced and chaired by Rob Webster, chief executive of NHS Confederation, the panel […]

The willingness of people to adopt and embrace technology offers the health service an opportunity to change to new models of care. Jeroen Tas, the Chief Executive of Health Informatics Solutions and Services at Philips, said that health care needs to move away from being a ‘one-size-fits-all’ industry. He told the Health and Innovation Expo […]

Simon Stevens today announced a major drive to improve and support the health and wellbeing of 1.3million health service staff. Speaking to a packed hall at the at the Health and Innovation Expo 2015 conference in Manchester, the NHS England Chief Executive set out how NHS organisations will be supported to help their staff stay well. […]

Patient access to records ignited a lively debate at the NHS England Expo conference today. Beverly Bryant, NHS England’s Director of Digital told the audience patient experience had been improved over the past few years by being able to do more on line including booking appointments and patient access to records. And relationships with the […]

A man who spent 25 years using a variety of mental health services co-ordinated the biggest UK gathering of people in secure care to get views on how to improve care. Ian Callaghan, who now works for Rethink Mental Illness, led a session which used voting pads to ask the 120-strong service user audience important […]

A new health and social care system is key to Greater Manchester’s devolution strategy. Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, spelled out the importance of a new look health care model as, together with Sir Malcolm Grant, NHS England’s Chairman, he opened the Health and Innovation Expo 2015. Addressing more than 5,000 […]

More than 20,000 people have given their views on the top priorities for reshaping mental health services as part of a drive to develop a five year national NHS strategy for people of all ages. Better access to high quality services, a wider choice of treatments, more focus on prevention, more funding and less stigma […]