As the NHS treats more patients than ever before, a new nationwide survey shows the majority of people are positive about their GP care – with almost 85 per cent rating their overall experience of their GP surgery as good. The GP Patient Survey 2017 compiled responses from more than 800,000 people across the country […]
NHS England, in partnership with the National Measurement System (NMS) – the government funded body that maintains the UK measurement infrastructure – has announced the winners of its first Chief Scientific Officer’s (CSO) Knowledge Transfer Partnership Programme. The bespoke 12 month development programme gives clinical leaders in healthcare science the opportunity to create, test and […]
The head of NHS England will today (Thursday 15 June) pledge to end the “fractured” health and social care system that leaves too many patients “passed from pillar to post” by giving local leaders and communities more control over how they improve health and social care. Addressing the NHS Confederation in Liverpool, Simon Stevens said: […]
Published today the 2016 Workforce Race Equality Standard data report presents the latest data highlighting the experiences of white and black and minority ethnic (BME) staff across the NHS. The report shows that whilst NHS trusts still have a lot of progress to make, there are some early ‘green shoots’ of hope. NHS England and […]
Following an announcement in May 2016 that NHS England would be developing a personal health budgets model for the provision of wheelchairs, five sites across the country have been leading work to trial ‘personal wheelchair budgets’. In this blog, programme lead Kate Buffery talks about the opportunity this scheme presents to improve wheelchair services and […]
Following the publication of the Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View, which detailed the work underway to expand perinatal mental health services with four new mother and baby units (MBU), mum Katy Chachou talks about her experience and the specialist support she received in a mother and baby unit in Birmingham. I first […]
It is nearly a year since Professor Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England launched Leading Change, Adding Value; a framework for nursing, midwifery and care staff in England. Susan Aitkenhead provides an overview of the work to date and what this means for nursing, midwifery care staff and what this means in practice. […]
NHS England introduced a new CCG improvement and assessment framework in 2016/17, fully aligned to the Next steps on the Five Year Forward View and NHS planning guidance. This brings together a range of key indicators, enabling NHS England and CCGs to work together, using the indicators to drive improvement for patients. There are national […]
The NHS is encouraging retired doctors to return to the health service to help bring down long waits for elective care, making it easier and more flexible for staff to return to the NHS as part of the Long Term Workforce Plan. The NHS Emeritus pilot scheme, first announced by NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard […]
Record numbers of doctors, nurses, dentists and other healthcare staff will be trained in England as part of the first ever Long Term Workforce Plan published by the NHS and backed by the Government today. Coming ahead of the health service’s 75th anniversary, the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan sets out how the NHS will […]