Midland’s safeguarding work ensures that the principles and duties of safeguarding adults and children are carried out across our region. This includes preventing the risk of significant harm from abuse and exploitation, and simultaneously supporting people to take control of their own lives by making informed choices. We also fully support the Government’s objectives to […]
The George Cross medal, awarded to the NHS in England by the Queen in recognition of the ‘courage, compassion and dedication’ of NHS staff and volunteers during the pandemic, is now on display in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries at the Science Museum. The George Cross, the UK’s highest civilian gallantry medal, also commemorates the work […]
This report provides an overview of NHS England and NHS Improvement’s performance during 2020/21 and 2021/22 on how we have met our seven equality objectives in accordance with both the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) and the Specific Equality Duties (SEDs).
The NHS England South (South West) Supporting Sustainable General Practice initiative is aimed at helping General Practices to considering their sustainability status and to explore options for responding to the current challenges facing General Practice and the wider Primary Care environment. If your Practice is within any of the following Clinical Commissioning Groups, the support […]
This letter sets out the NHS’ objectives and vision for abortion services and key actions for integrated care boards and partners to take forward to improve care and promote sector resilience.
Letter from Steve Russell, Chief Delivery Officer, NHS England and Professor Janice Rymer, Consultant Gynaecologist and National Speciality Advisor for Gynaecology, NHS England [2019-2023].
NHS England’s Head of Public Participation reflects on some exciting news: The Care Quality Commission published its new equality objectives for 2017-2019 last week. Whilst this may not seem particularly noteworthy – ‘another corporate announcement, so who cares?’ – please bear with me because you may be surprised. The five objectives are: Person centred care […]
The agenda and papers for NHS England and NHS Improvement Board Meetings in Common for 19 May 2022.
A National Partnership Agreement between NHS England, the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and Public Health England (PHE) has been developed. It sets out the shared strategic intent and joint commitment in the commissioning, enabling and delivery of healthcare services in adult prisons in England. It sets out: respective roles and objectives of each organisation […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Nature abhors a vacuum, so I try to keep blogging regularly, in case you think we have gone away or eased up on the work of the review. We haven’t. But there really is not a lot to report this week in terms […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Welcome to the first blog for 2015. It’s been a month since the last one – I thought I should allow you to enjoy the festive season in peace! However, the work on the review has not stopped and we continue where we […]