Dr Janet Williamson, NHS Improving Quality’s Director of National Improvement Programmes, outlines six key messages for commissioners and providers. NHS England’s Everyone Counts has given a commitment to the NHS moving towards routine services being available seven days a week. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh at the inaugural NHS England AGM said of seven day services: […]
Since the publication of this blog Dr Martin McShane has left NHS England. Dr Martin McShane, NHS England’s Director for Patients with Long Term Conditions, opened the two-day Future of Health Conference with this welcome: “First of all I would like to thank Ed Wagner for coming and sharing his thoughts and insights. It is […]
Andrew Snowball, the Health Service Journal’s Head of Engagement, explains how the magazine’s readers are supporting the call for 24/7 care: There is a growing sense of inevitability behind the recent calls for the NHS to be a seven-day service. In June, health secretary Jeremy Hunt described the new £3.8bn social care commissioning pot – on […]
Dr Janet Williamson, Director of National Improvement Programmes, explains how NHS Improving Quality is working alongside the NHS Services, Seven Days A Week Forum: NHS Improving Quality is building on the work of one of its legacy bodies, NHS Improvement, to support NHS England’s NHS Services, Seven Days a Week Forum build the evidence in […]
NHS England has today launched recruitment to the latest addition to its Clinical Reference Group (CRG) structure. The Armed Forces CRG will provide clinical advice to NHS England in support of its commissioning decisions regarding serving armed forces personnel, their families, mobilised reservists and veterans. In particular, this CRG will review and support the integration […]
NHS England today has welcomed the findings of an independent audit that shows 20 per cent more patients are now surviving severe trauma since the introduction of Major Trauma Networks in 2010. Results from the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) national audit show that 1 in 5 patients who would have died before the […]
The NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) has today published Securing Excellence in Commissioning NHS Dental Services. From April 2013, the NHS CB will take commissioning responsibility from primary care trusts for all NHS dental services: primary, community and secondary, including dental out of hours and urgent care. This will include commissioning dental services provided in high […]
Over the past decade, the role of commissioning, as a key driver of quality, efficiency and outcomes for patients, has become increasingly important to the health system in England. At its simplest, commissioning is the process of planning, agreeing and monitoring services. However, securing services is much more complicated than securing goods and the diversity […]
Today we are announcing the introduction of Operational Delivery Networks which will complement the newly created Strategic Clinical Networks. Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs) will cover areas such as neonatal intensive care, adult critical care, burns and trauma and are focussed on coordinating patient pathways between providers over a wide area to ensure access to specialist […]
The NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) and the Department of Health have published their detailed agreement showing how the NHS CB will drive improvements in the health of England’s population through its commissioning of certain public health services. The agreement sets out the outcomes to be achieved in exercising these public health functions and provides […]