Simon Stevens today stressed the importance of frontline nursing in the community as the NHS moves into a new era. Speaking at the Queen’s Nursing Institute annual conference in London, NHS England’s Chief Executive called on nurses to demonstrate their innovation and leadership as part of the way to solve many of the challenges facing […]
Sir Malcolm Grant, Chairman of NHS England, looks back over 2013-14 This past year NHS England has clearly demonstrated its full commitment to putting patients at the very heart of everything we do. We have promoted transparency and accountability for our work and our services, and ensured we have spent finite taxpayer resources in the […]
High-need individuals to be offered ability to control their own blended NHS and community care, in partnership with voluntary sector. The NHS will offer local councils across England a radical new option in which individuals could control their combined health and social care support, Simon Stevens CEO of NHS England will announce today. Speaking at […]
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens will today (July 1) applaud “a major NHS success story” as new figures show about 600 more patients are surviving major trauma since changes to services in April 2012. The 16,000 life-threatening major traumas are the biggest cause of death in children and adults under the age of 40 annually. In all, some 37,000 are seriously injured in England […]
NHS Confederation brings together senior decision-makers from across the whole of the health system. With over 2,000 attendees expected to attend, the conference provides the perfect forum to discuss current health policy and share innovation and best practice. Over the course of the conference, NHS England speakers will address the issues that matter for patients […]
Seventy five NHS Trusts across the country will benefit from £30 million to buy technology for nurses, midwives and care staff. It is the first round of investment of the £100m ‘Nursing Technology Fund’ which was announced by Prime Minister, David Cameron. NHS England launched the application process for funding last year. The funding will […]
NHS England has received an impressive 80 nominations for the first ever Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care, to be presented at the Health and Care Innovation Expo on 4 March. Kate Granger, a doctor terminally ill with cancer, will present the awards and share her intensely personal views on the levels of compassion demonstrated […]
Dr Geraldine Strathdee, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental Health, explains why it is so crucial we get emergency mental health care right: I am delighted the Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat launches today. It has been created in partnership with committed leaders from across health and social care, police and justice, local government […]
NHS England has today published the funding allocations that Clinical Commissioning Groups will receive over the next two years (2014/15 and 2015/16). Funding allocations Supporting note It follows yesterday’s decision by the NHS England Board to adopt a new funding formula for local health commissioners that will more accurately reflect population changes and include a […]
“Look after yourself this winter. If you know someone who is frail or elderly or has a serious health problem, then help look after them too. Help or encourage them to go to their pharmacy or GP before one problem leads to another and they end up in hospital.” Senior clinicians at NHS England today […]