Hundreds of Directors of Nursing are today gathered for the first day of the 2014 Chief Nursing Officers Summit in Manchester. Over the next two days delegates from across the country will hear from some of the country’s top nursing leaders at the event entitled Experience Matters, organised by NHS England and the Nursing Times. Jane […]

A major new alliance committed to improving care and support for people with long-term conditions has been launched in London today (Friday 21 November). The Coalition for Collaborative Care (C4CC) has people with long-term health conditions at the heart of its powerful alliance and brings together some of the sector’s most influential national groups and […]

In Everyone Counts, Planning for Patients 2014/15 – 2018/19, all local NHS commissioners (Clinical Commissioning Groups and NHS England Area Teams) were asked jointly to plan for improvement in seven areas relating to improving patient outcomes.  This included setting local ‘levels of ambition’ for the outcomes commissioners planned to achieve for the local population. Commissioning […]

A stage one warning has been issued to further raise awareness of the risk of harm or death from inappropriate doses of naloxone in patients on long-term opioid or opiate treatment, where these drugs are used to provide relief from both chronic and acute pain, such as following surgery. Risk of distress and death from […]

This is to let you know about the next steps to help you plan and prepare to get the best results from the Commissioning Support Lead Provider Framework (LPF) which will open for use from 30th January 2015. The initial response from providers to the LPF was very strong and has been strengthened since the […]

Patients and their long term needs will again be the focus of this year’s Future of Health conference tomorrow, at which NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens will give the keynote address. Continuing with the theme of putting patients at the heart of everything, the conference will again feature a People’s Panel – a unique […]

A patient safety alert has been issued by NHS England to further raise awareness of the risk of harm or death from inappropriate doses of naloxone in patients on long-term opioid or opiate treatment, where these drugs are used to provide relief from both chronic and acute pain, such as following surgery. In cases where […]

It is not too late to sign up for this year’s Future of Health Conference. The event, being staged at Kensington Olympia, London, on Friday (November 21), will be opened by NHS England’s Chief Executive Simon Stevens. Other speakers will include Professor David Haslam, Chair of NICE, and Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of General […]

Forty six NHS organisations have received a share of a £2.5m fund to help change patients’ lives and improve care through innovation. The winners of NHS England’s Regional Innovation Fund were announced today by Chief Executive, Simon Stevens at the Managers in Partnership Conference 2014. The £2.5m fund was launched in April to support and […]

NHS England initiative sees Consultant Surgeons’ data published for 2014 – new specialities and indicators added on patient-friendly NHS Choices website The NHS’s world-leading transparency drive takes another step forward today as the latest annual results for individual consultant surgeons are published (from 6am on Wednesday 19 November). This year the NHS is bringing together […]