NHS England has today published the NHS Number Survey Report, a national baseline report across all Trusts on their use of the NHS Number when sharing information for direct care. The recent “Framework for Action” report outlined the importance of the NHS Number and this survey has enabled NHS England to build, for the first […]

Dementia is a clinical syndrome and at one level simply implies brain failure (analogous to heart failure or liver failure). The diagnosis is a two stage process. First, to make a diagnosis of dementia you need to differentiate it from: depression; delirium; the effect of drugs and; the changes in memory expected as part of […]

NHS England has today published the latest quarterly ‘Assuring Transformation’ data that tracks progress on the NHS commitments in the Winterbourne View Concordat, as of 30 September 2014. The Concordat is an action plan, published by the Department of Health (December 2012), to ensure that all people with learning disabilities and autism receive the health […]

Radical new plans to improve health outcomes and the quality of patient care through digital technology and innovation have been unveiled by national health and social care organisations today. Established by the Department of Health and chaired by NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information, Tim Kelsey, the National Information Board has set out […]

NHS England today published its updated procedure for evaluating drugs in the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), which will mean more effective and promising drugs will be prioritised and made available to patients. Since it was established in 2010, more than 55,000 patients have accessed treatment through the CDF – around 2,000 every month. Last week […]

NHS England in Nottinghamshire has been working with Public Health England to investigate apparent breaches of infection control procedures by a single dentist, who was contracted to provide NHS dental services at the former Daybrook Dental Practice, 88 Mansfield Road in Gedling, Nottinghamshire. In June 2014 NHS England was contacted by a whistleblower who had […]

NHS England has welcomed better portrayals of mental health in prime time TV storylines after a report showed the subject being covered more authentically and more often. The report ‘Making a drama out of a crisis’ was launched by Time to Change, the anti-stigma campaign run by Mind and Rethink Mental Illness. It comes as Coronation Street’s […]

NHS England’s Chief Nursing Officer, Jane Cummings, has talked frankly about staffing levels, Parity of Esteem and how she cared for her husband as he died of leukaemia. She also outlined the importance of the 6Cs, how she manages her own Type One diabetes and how she first got into nursing during a candid interview […]

The Next steps towards primary care co-commissioning document has been published today (Monday 10 November). It has been developed by the joint CCG and NHS England primary care co-commissioning programme oversight group in partnership with NHS Clinical Commissioners. The purpose of the document is to give CCGs the opportunity to choose afresh the co-commissioning model […]

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