Thinking like a patient, acting like a taxpayer – from NHS challenges to new solutions? We meet here in Liverpool at a defining moment in the history of our National Health Service. A time when the standards of care for the vast majority of our patients in the vast majority of our communities continues to […]
NHS England and GovLab have today launched a blueprint – The Open Data Era in health and social care report – for accelerating the use of open data in health and care settings. The availability of open data can empower citizens and help care providers, patients and researchers make better decisions, spur new innovations and […]
NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) is a package of care for adults aged 18 or over which is arranged and funded solely by the NHS. In order to receive NHS CHC funding individuals, have to be assessed by integrated commissioning boards (ICBs) according to a legally prescribed decision making process to determine whether the individual […]
The Technical Guide to 2014-15 and 2015-16 CCG allocations and primary care allocations to Area Teams has now been published. The technical guide sets out the methodology and actual calculation of the allocations which were agreed at the 17 December 2013 NHS England Board meeting. This documentation covers both the target allocations determined by the formulae […]
Monday 24 March is World TB Day and to mark the occasion Public Health England (PHE) has launched a consultation on proposals for a national strategy to combat TB. NHS England welcomes the opportunity to work with PHE on the consultation. Tuberculosis, TB, is a disease that can have serious consequences. In 2012 there were […]
NHS England is today (Tuesday 18 March) publishing the first set of quarterly data prompted by the Winterbourne View Concordat aimed at getting better care for people with learning disabilities, autism and behaviour that challenges. Where someone is admitted to hospital the priority from the start should be rehabilitation and returning home. Following the Winterbourne […]
In support of the government’s dementia promise announcement today NHS England has commissioned two free services on NHS Choices for people who have been diagnosed with dementia and their carers. The first is an email service. People who subscribe to this service will get six emails – one each week – giving them access to […]
The Medical Appraisal Guide Model Appraisal Form (MAG Form) has provided an option as a working appraisal vehicle, given the limited availability of other formats, since the commencement of revalidation in 2014. It has now served its time and NHS England is advising a process of MAG form discontinuation. Doctors currently using the MAG form […]
NHS England follows the format of appraisal described by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in the Medical Appraisal Guide 2022. This describes how medical appraisal can be carried out effectively. It is designed to help doctors understand what they need to do to prepare for and participate in appraisal and to help appraisers and […]
NHS England has today published a good practice guide for commissioners, to assist clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) should they choose to develop proposals for major service changes and reconfiguration. This guidance builds on earlier best practice guidance developed prior to the new commissioning system, but has been brought up to date, reflecting the roles and […]