More than half of overweight patients who routinely attended sessions on the NHS Type 2 diabetes prevention programme achieved an average weight loss equivalent to nearly 15 double cheese burgers, new data has revealed. So far well over 50% of people have completed the flagship scheme after attending at least eight support sessions over a […]
Babyloss Awareness Week is held annually from October 9 to 15. Involving twenty-one pregnancy and baby loss charities in the UK, it’s a special opportunity to mark the brief lives of babies lost in pregnancy or soon after birth. The Miscarriage Association’s National Director, Ruth Bender Atik, takes a look at how we can improve experiences […]
As the Professional Footballers’ Association teams up with experts to produce a guide to help former players and their families, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia examines the links between the beautiful game and the devastating illness: There has been much interest recently about the association between the development of dementia and playing football. […]
Pioneering brain surgery that allows children who are deaf to experience the sensation of hearing for the first time is being made routinely available, NHS England announced today. Two highly specialist teams at hospitals in Manchester and London will perform Auditory Brainstem Implants (ABIs) surgery for children who are deaf across the country. The surgery […]
Contents Update to GP contracts Expanding the workforce Cutting bureaucracy Quality and Outcomes Framework GP contractual position Flexibilities to respond to local outbreaks LESs/LISs and local pilots Further updates Funding Annex A: Income protection arrangements for general practice Publications approval reference: 001559 / C0569 9 July 2020 An electronic copy of this letter, and […]
Hundreds of thousands of people will receive NHS help to battle obesity and Type 2 diabetes under radical action set out by Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of NHS England, today. Very low calorie diets that have been shown to put Type 2 Diabetes in remission in those recently diagnosed with the condition will be trialled […]
Contents 1. Introduction 2. Summary of all indicators 3. Income Protection Payments 4. Detailed clinical guidance for new indicators 5. Indicators no longer in QOF (INLIQ) 6. Quality Improvement Reporting Templates Publishing approval reference: C0713 1. Introduction 1.1 Background The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is a voluntary scheme within the General Medical Services […]
NHS England and Health Education England have today launched ActNow, an e-learning tool developed for health service and care staff to help them reduce hospital delays for patients. Nearly 350,000 patients currently spend over three weeks in acute hospitals each year. Many of those are older people who are often frail, and while a short […]
From today thousands of people will be able to access NHS soup and shake weight-loss plans to tackle type 2 diabetes. The diet and lifestyle plans have been shown to put Type 2 diabetes into remission for people recently diagnosed with the condition, and will now be provided to 5,000 more patients in 10 areas […]
Next Tuesday (27 March) marks the two year anniversary of the publication of Better Births, and Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, Head of Maternity, Children and Young People at NHS England and National Maternity Safety Champion for the Department of Health reflects on the importance of continuity of carer in maternity services. Some would say that implementing […]