Health Minister Lord Howe and delegates at NHS England’s Local Professional Networks (LPN) Assembly will be invited to visit the Royal National Institute for the Blind’s sight loss simulator, the Eye Pod. The Eye Pod has giant eyes connected to viewers that visitors look through to experience conditions such as glaucoma and cataracts. LPN members, […]

The NHS Services, Seven Days A Week Forum has reached a significant milestone, with each of the five work streams reporting on their initial findings. The remit of the work streams is to consider seven day a week provision in urgent and emergency care and in diagnostics. The work streams are: • Clinical Standards – led […]

The remaining three of ten specialist surgical societies will publish outcomes data for individual hospital consultants, including mortality rates, from today. This completes the staged ‘pilot’ publication of this data that started in June this year. It is part of NHS England’s drive for greater transparency and a commitment to providing patients with more information […]

Professor Keith Willett, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Acute Episodes of Care, has welcomed a report by the Royal College of Physicians’ Future Hospital Commission. The report, entitled Future Hospital: Caring For Medical Patients, sets out the Commission’s vision for hospital services structured around the needs of patients, both now and in the future. […]

NHS England is pleased to announce the recruitment of four respective patient and public voice (PPV) representatives to its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG) and Rare Disease Advisory Group (RDAG). Susie Gear, Alistair Kent, Nick Sireau and Christine Collins will join RDAG with Linn Phipps, Sally Brearley, Madeline Wang, Barry Silverman joining CPAG. All representatives […]

As part of our commitment to make information as accessible as possible, you can watch NHS England’s Annual General Meeting, held at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, London, live from approximately 18:00 on 12 September 2013. We will be tweeting throughout the day from @NHSEngland and you can comment on Twitter using #NHSAGM or contribute […]

NHS England has today published the following clinical commissioning policies and policy statements, in support of its role as the direct commissioner of specialised services: D05/P/f Clinical commissioning policy: Stereotactic radiosurgery/radiotherapy for glomus tumours D05/P/g Clinical commissioning policy: Radiosurgery/radiotherapy for cavernous venous malformations D05/PS/a Clinical commissioning policy statement: Stereotactic radiosurgery, radiotherapy for ocular melanoma and […]

NHS England has today supported the Secretary of State for Health as he set out his plans for ensuring the safety and sustainability of urgent and emergency care services this winter and into the future. NHS England’s Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Dame Barbara Hakin, and Medical Director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, set […]

A workshop drawing together clinicians and experts in suicide prevention across Thames Valley and Wessex will be hosted by NHS England and NHS Mental Health Service providers* on World Suicide Day on Tuesday 10 September. During the workshop, attendees will hear from family members who will talk about the loss of a loved one who […]

The next Board meeting will take place on Friday 13 September at 10:00am – at NHS England Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QT If you would like to attend, please register your interest by lunchtime on 11th September as places are limited. Please contact england.boardattendance@nhs.net. Please note that members of the public are welcome […]