NHS England has welcomed plans for a radical shake up of youth mental health care to be announced today by MP Norman Lamb (Tuesday). Care and Support Minister Mr Lamb will say that children and young people’s mental health services need a complete overhaul to stop vulnerable young people missing out on vital support. Following […]

NHS England is this week supporting a national campaign to raise awareness of the importance of good nutrition and hydration care. Nutrition and Hydration Week is a campaign of joint action by Hospital Caterers Association, National Association of Care Catering and NHS England to improve awareness of good nutrition and hydration for patients in health […]

This summary offers an overview of the system and pulls together information on waiting times in A&E, ambulance response times, daily situation reports from the NHS, and information on flu rates. Winter health check –  13 March 2015 (document is available on our archived website).

Lack of knowledge about our kidneys could lead to rise in unnecessary deaths due to acute kidney injury (AKI). Research by Ipsos MORI on behalf of Think Kidneys reveals a major lack of knowledge about the function and care of human kidneys, the hardest working organs in our body, amongst the public. Kidney health specialists […]

NHS England has this week announced action to improve race equality across the NHS workforce. The move follows recent reports that have highlighted disparities in the number of BME people in senior leadership positions across the NHS, as well as lower levels of wellbeing amongst the BME population. From April 2015, NHS organisations across the […]

The NHS and Public Health in England will today (Thursday) start a major national initiative to prevent illness by unveiling the first ever at-scale National NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme. Simon Stevens, NHS England’s Chief Executive, will announce the move in a major speech at the Diabetes UK conference in London.  The programme, which is a joint initiative […]

NHS England’s Medical Director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, has welcomed the announcement of the equipment and building suppliers which will start work on the UK’s first proton beam therapy cancer centres this summer. The Government is investing £250 million in the building of the two specialist centres at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust […]

NHS Change Day 2015 is up and running and the pledges of support have been pouring in. A 12-hour Changeathon webcast is currently live and running from 7am to 7pm where individuals, teams and campaigns across the NHS are talking about what they are doing for Change Day. NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens describes […]

As part of Change Day, NHS England is supporting “John’s Campaign” which supports people with dementia. The campaign calls for family and carers of people with dementia to be allowed to remain with them in hospital for as many hours of the day and night as necessary. Campaigners point to the difference between the treatment […]

The NHS has today (Tuesday 10 March) chosen the first 29 ‘vanguard’ geographies that will take the national lead on transforming care for patients in towns, cities and counties across England. 269 groups of nurses, doctors and other health and social care staff from across the country put forward their ideas for how they want […]