The latest edition of the New care models update bulletin has been published. In this edition of the monthly bulletin you will find information about the recently launched new care models evaluation strategy and details of the national events that the new care models programme will have a presence at. There is also news about […]

NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental Health, who is among the speakers at the Health+Care Commissioning Show, examines the need for integrated care: Integration is now one of the most commonly used words today in healthcare. The Five Year Forward View sets out the principles of integration: the integration of physical and mental health, […]

Dr Jacqueline Cornish, NHS England’s National Clinical Director Children, Young People and Transition to Adulthood, explains the importance of the publication of the first Service Specifications for CAMHS to Adult Mental Health and other Services: Whoever added “Transition to Adulthood” to my National Clinical Director job title when I joined NHS England was inspired. As […]

Some solutions can be hidden in plain sight. Those of us closely connected with intermediate care will certainly see these services as an important part of the solution for our overheated health and social care system, and as a platform for multi-agency working and better integrated care. The user group is predominantly older people with […]

NHS England is today (Tuesday 18 March) publishing the first set of quarterly data prompted by the Winterbourne View Concordat aimed at getting better care for people with learning disabilities, autism and behaviour that challenges. Where someone is admitted to hospital the priority from the start should be rehabilitation and returning home. Following the Winterbourne […]