Professor Jonathan Benger, National Clinical Director for Urgent Care for NHS England, updates on the Urgent and Emergency Care Review: We are changing the way we work to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed, and to help our patients. The current system is unsustainable and urgent care desperately needs an overhaul; a concept now widely […]
By Professor Keith Willett, director for acute episodes of care, NHS England: We have just emerged from another winter where Accident and Emergency Departments up and down the country have been under unprecedented scrutiny. There was a great deal of expectation that the system would simply collapse due to the ever increasing demands placed on […]
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 […]
You will have all seen Sir Bruce Keogh talk about the recent publication of NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review End of Phase 1 report. I have led the Review for Sir Bruce and the publication of our report sets out a vision for how we can deliver a new system of urgent and […]
Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s medical director, explains the next steps in his plans to revamp A&E services across the country: A&E is creaking at the seams. It is not broken but it is struggling. In my view our A&E service has become a victim of its own success. It functions because people are seriously […]
The National Medical Director of NHS England today proposes a fundamental shift in provision of urgent care, with more extensive services outside hospital and patients with more serious or life threatening conditions receiving treatment in centres with the best clinical teams, expertise and equipment. Sir Bruce Keogh is publishing a report on the first stage […]
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 […]
I welcome the opportunity to appear before the Health Select Committee to lay out the evidence behind NHS England’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care. Together with senior colleagues Professor Sir Bruce Keogh and Dame Barbara Hakin, we are not only taking our message to Parliament and talking to MPs, but this is also a chance […]
NHS England is today asking patients, public and NHS staff to help shape the future of urgent and emergency care services. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review was announced in January this year. Its aim is to develop a national framework to build a safe, more efficient system, 24 hours a day, […]
Plans to strengthen performance in urgent and emergency care are being put in place across the country to help hospital A&E departments meet demand and tackle waiting time pressures. Read the A&E improvement plan and accompanying letter to staff. (these documents are no longer available here but can be found on the National Archives website) […]