NHS England has been collecting data from general practice appointment systems (TPP SystmOne, EMIS Web, Cegedim (InPS Vision), Microtest Evolution and Informatica) and publishing local monthly data, since 2018. This published data provides a picture of general practice appointments and includes details such as the number of appointments, the healthcare professional carrying them out and where […]
Patients will have better, more joined up care as Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), which require all parts of the NHS to work with each other and their partners, are rolled out across the country from next month. NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens today confirmed that the final 13 areas, serving 14.9 million people, will […]
Aims to support GPs in areas with biggest primary care workload pressures. A new £15m scheme to fund, recruit and employ clinical pharmacists in GP surgeries has been launched today by NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens. The three year initiative, which will go live this year, will give patients the additional support of an […]
The world-beating NHS vaccination programme has expanded further so that 12 to 15 year olds who are most at risk from COVID, including those who are severely immunosuppressed and with underlying health conditions, can now book in their booster online. The national booking service has been updated so that the most vulnerable in this cohort […]
The NHS in England is the first health system in the world to systematically identify people, aged 65 and over, who are living with moderate and severe frailty using a population-based stratification approach. This can be done using the electronic Frailty Index (eFI) or any other appropriate assessment tool. The eFI uses routine health record […]
The national new care models programme brings together local health and care systems as vanguards to radically redesign care for the local populations they serve. As part of this work, NHS England has set out details of the framework – what good looks like – for enhanced health in care homes. A lead nurse and a […]
‘Long COVID’ is commonly used to describe signs and symptoms that continue or develop after acute COVID‑19. It includes both ongoing symptomatic COVID‑19 and post‑COVID‑19 syndrome (NICE, 2020). As of 2 October 2021, an estimated 1.2 million people living in private households in the UK (1.9% of the population) were experiencing self-reported Long COVID (symptoms […]
Pulse oximeters are being provided to patients as part of the NHS response to COVID-19. This service supports people at home who have been diagnosed with coronavirus and are most at risk of becoming seriously unwell. If you are a patient or member of the public, please visit NHS UK for more information about looking […]
England’s Chief Nursing Officer has today launched a ten point action plan to recognise and develop the roles that general practice nurses have which transform care and can help deliver the plan to make the NHS fit for the future. Developing confidence, capability and capacity – the ten point action plan for General Practice Nursing […]
As Muslims begin to prepare for the month of Ramadan, the NHS has issued a reminder to those who observe the Islamic holy month to avoid social gatherings because of the risk of coronavirus. Ramadan will be marked all over the world from Thursday 23 April with month-long fasting and observations of spiritual reflection set […]