NHS England today agreed new steps to implement plans to strengthen general practice, ease the pressure on GPs and improve services for patients. The measures aim to help struggling GP practices, protect GPs from the rising cost of negligence claims and introduce new models of care that will create more joined-up services. It follows the […]
Sir Malcolm Grant, Chairman of NHS England, discusses developing a set of principles to protect the integrity of decision making in public duty. To ensure that no individual should find themselves in a position where there is the possibility of conflict between their NHS duties and other interests, we have set up a special ‘task […]
The President of the British Society for Rheumatology calls for “all hands on deck” to tackle rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: I am very excited to be serving the British Society of Rheumatology (BSR) as its President – a role I took up just two months ago. Our members are front-line clinicians, nurses and allied health professionals […]
According to Simon Stevens dealing with the elephants in the room is one of the priorities for this year. As we all know, eating elephants should be done one bite at a time…and in terms of our health and care systems perhaps the toughest part to chew is strategic workforce planning. In the workforce redesign team […]
Health Education England, with support from NHS England, has just launched an e-learning programme to help increase understanding of the armed forces population and facilitate improved care and treatment. The programme covers current serving personnel, veterans and their families. Dr Jonathan Leach, an army veteran and GP, explains its importance: The Armed Forces community consists of current members of the […]
Residents of care homes are among the most vulnerable in our society. Yet they often have poor access to health care and have a high mortality – the life expectancy of a person with dementia in a care home is similar to that of metastatic breast cancer. We know that around 70% of people in […]
The Chair of the NHS England Gender Task & Finish Group looks at how new guidance and training packages promote best practice in the treatment of transgender people in the NHS: I am always pleased to draw attention to examples of good practice from the transgender community, voluntary organisations and other stakeholders in this […]
200,000 homeless, older and vulnerable people have had ‘lessons’ to get online and contact their doctor reducing GP visits and costs to the NHS. In the first two years of the NHS England pilot scheme ‘Widening Digital Participation’ 14,000 people registered with a GP and looked online first before contacting the doctor. Half of those […]
Changes in legislation means advanced paramedics are now able to prescribe, bringing huge benefits to patients and the NHS across the UK. These highly skilled paramedics, after undertaking additional training, will be able to prescribe medicines to patients. This is likely to happen in practice in early 2019. What does the legislation change mean? Over […]
We are now well into 2016 and January has been such a busy month, moving full speed ahead with lots of public engagements, giving me the chance to talk about our key priorities and our great work in Primary Care as well as what we have planned throughout the year. The children’s health digital strategy […]