This document describes the approach for “testing” the principles of a framework for NHS pharmacy and medicines integration within Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) and Integrated Care System (ICS) pilot areas during 2018/19.

Leading change The nurse lead at Bedfordshire Continence Service undertook a comprehensive service review, developing new systems, processes and pathways in order to address unwarranted variation in their service’s practices, to improve the outcomes and experience of people using their service. Where to look The Continence Service provides advice, support and treatment for people with […]

Purposes for processing NHS England uses Assuring Transformation Data to check that people with a learning disability, autism or both are getting the right care in the right place. Please see our Assuring transformation data web page and What is assuring transformation for more information about how we do this. NHS Digital publishes a monthly […]

Information in relation to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Plan.

The NHS Long Term Plan pledges radical change for people needing planned care. Too often people are travelling for hours to a hospital appointment that lasts a few minutes when they could be saved time, cost and stress by the NHS doing things in a different way. Sometimes people are waiting months to be treated at their […]

An easy read and plain English documents explaining how NHS England puts information together to give better care for people with a learning disability, autism or both.

The Director of the Implementation Team looks at the way forward for the Workforce Race Equality Standard: When the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) was introduced to the NHS in April 2015, it was the first time that race equality was mandated and built into the NHS standard contract. This, in itself, was a challenge for […]

The increasing pressure on today’s NHS has been well documented. Hospitals are facing an unprecedented level of demand for their urgent and emergency services and continued challenges from delays in discharging patients to community and social care services. What this shows us is that while there are many individual examples of good and outstanding care, […]

A sustainability and transformation partnerships (STP) progress dashboard gives an initial baseline view of STPs’ work, showing the starting point from which they will drive improvements in care. It tracks the combined achievements of local services through 17 performance indicators across nine priority areas, each falling into three core themes of hospital performance, patient-focused change and transformation.

NHS England intends to update the dashboard annually to enable progress to be tracked. Its methodology may also evolve over time.