As we shape the new Workforce, Training and Education Function, I believe we have a real opportunity to continue to strengthen our leadership, management development, and talent management and transform it into a business-critical activity. Identifying what best practice looks like from within the NHS and beyond will be vital in supporting this work. I […]
The Central Commercial Function (CCF) is a team of commercial experts within the NHS England Commercial Directorate that delivers 7 services for the wider NHS commercial community. These services are at different stages of maturity with some being new or in development. The NHS England Board paper outlines what the CCF will deliver and how, […]
As a ‘prescribed person’, we are required to publish information annually on the number of whistleblowing cases we received that are considered to be ‘qualifying disclosures’ and how they were taken forward. The purpose of this is to help assure individuals who blow the whistle that action is taken in respect of their disclosures. For […]
This chapter sets out the actions planned to achieve the 2030 vision for the NHS people profession. These actions were co-designed by working groups made up of national leaders, subject-matter experts and directors of human resources. They were refined further through crowdsourced discussion with the people profession and their customers. The chapter addresses each of […]
The delivery of the programme will balance national direction with local autonomy to secure the best outcomes for our people and patients. The improvement and transformation of the people profession will be supported by NHS-wide standards, which will be co-designed with people professionals and customers. Systems and organisations are at different starting points and will […]
Classification: Official Publication approval reference: C1623 Overall aim To provide asymptomatic testing, as required by a clinically led risk-based approach, to elective care patients using primarily lateral flow devices (LFDs), or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests if clinically recommended, from 1 April 2022. This will enable patients on elective care pathways to test as advised […]
Classification: Official Publication approval reference: C1624 Overall aim To provide testing, as required by a clinically led risk-based approach, to inpatients, as outlined below, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and lateral flow devices (LFDs) from 1 April 2022. This will reduce the risk of nosocomial transmission and allow for action to be taken to […]
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and South Warwickshire Foundation NHS Trust are using the Health and Wellbeing Framework to raise the profile of workforce wellbeing What we’ve done Who we are George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and South Warwickshire Foundation NHS Trust are two separate organisations in the Midlands providing acute hospital services. Together we […]
In response to previously published plans and research, we developed General practice – Developing confidence, capability and capacity: a ten point action plan for general practice nursing that described the changes required to improve recruitment and retention, and encourage the return of nurses to general practice. The was led at the time by Professor Jane Cummings, […]
The Midlands Developing Aspirant Ethnic Minority Nursing and Midwifery Leaders Programme is a new, innovative regional pilot scheme designed by ethnic minority nurses and midwives for ethnic minority nurses and midwives. Miriam Coffie and Tom Warner explain how the programme works and its contribution to reducing healthcare inequalities. Nearly a quarter of nurses and midwives […]