Care ‘traffic control’ centres to speed up discharge, additional ambulance hours and extra beds are part of wide-ranging plans to prepare for winter, the NHS will announce today. The robust new measures, due to be set out at the NHS England board meeting in Birmingham today, will boost capacity and resilience across the NHS as […]
For decades we have known that many patients can receive better, safer, more convenient care outside hospital and so backing these models can give a better experience for patients and avoid unnecessary admissions and improve discharge. We will do this by expanding and better joining up new types of care outside hospital and expanding virtual […]
Expanding acute capacity Through additional funding the NHS has already increased the number of staffed hospital beds, with more to come. As we know there is a well-established link between high bed occupancy rates in hospitals and worse A&E performance. So there will be 5,000 more staffed, sustainable beds in 2023/24 in the places that […]
The hottest June on record saw heightened demand for urgent and emergency services, as staff managed more A&E attendances and saw the second highest number of the most serious ambulance incidents (category 1) for any June. Ambulance response times across all categories have seen improvements on last year, with paramedics reaching category 2 patients an […]
The challenge facing health and care means no one organisation can address them alone. The only way to tackle issues like winter pressures and health inequalities is through collective effort. Integrated care systems (ICSs) are the right structures to do this. Our Integrated care strategy and Integrated health and care delivery plan have been co-developed […]
BBC One’s Casualty, which is the world’s longest running primetime medical drama, is set to air a special episode to mark the 75th anniversary of the NHS. The episode will highlight the extraordinary teamwork and collaboration that goes on across the medical services every day to save lives. In a break from its traditional format […]
Hundreds of communities came together at their local parkruns and junior parkruns this weekend to celebrate the NHS’s 75th anniversary. Across the Saturday events and Sunday junior events 185,015 people took part as walkers, joggers, runners and volunteers, with many more coming along to watch and be part of this special occasion. 11,715 people took […]
Amanda Pritchard speaking at Westminster Abbey On Wednesday (5 July), 2,200 NHS staff, volunteers and partners attended a service at Westminster Abbey to mark the NHS’s 75th birthday. The event, which was attended by TRHs The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, started with a procession of the George Cross, which was presented to the NHS […]
Five winners of a photography competition for NHS staff and volunteers to mark 75 years of the health service have been unveiled today at the FUJIFILM House of Photography, with images including long-serving nurse, ‘Mother Obe’, the NHS COVID-19 vaccination effort and an ambulance battling the Beast from the East among the winning images. The […]
Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh will be joined by NHS staff, senior government and political leaders, health leaders and celebrities at a service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the NHS 75th birthday next week. The service, to be held at 11am on Wednesday 5 July, will include an address by NHS […]