See a full structure of Who’s who at NHS England. Non-executive directors NHS England’s non-executive directors are: Chair Richard Meddings Richard Meddings joined the Board of NHS England as Chair in March 2022. From 2002 to 2014, Richard was a Group Executive Director at Standard Chartered, and Group Finance Director for eight years. Prior to […]

Female healthcare scientists are invited to apply for NHS England’s prestigious leadership development scheme, aimed at mid-career healthcare scientists to develop leaders and increase their impact within their Trusts and beyond. Led by NHS England’s Chief Scientific Officer, the CSOWISE Healthcare Science Leadership Development Programme for NHS England scheme provides support for 32 healthcare scientists over 12 […]

In order to have sustainable clinical leadership, capable of scaling up efforts from the grassroots level, we have established Clinical Fellowships and Clinical Entrepreneur schemes for the dental profession. With this new network of clinical leaders, we are making a significant investment in ensuring effective and influential leadership for the future. The Chief Dental Officer’s […]

We have today announced a new joint senior leadership team – the NHS Executive Group – with NHS England. As part of closer working arrangements between the two organisations, we will share a new combined management group with NHS England, chaired by our two chief executives. Under the new structure, the seven integrated regional teams […]

NHS England and NHS Improvement have today announced a new joint senior leadership team – the NHS Executive Group. As part of closer working arrangements between the two organisations, NHS England and NHS Improvement will share the new combined management group chaired by the two chief executives. Appointments to the new NHS Executive Group are: […]

Leading change A Care Coordinator led the implementation of the internationally recognised Esther care model, initially within a care home at the Graham Care Home Group after they identified unwarranted variation in practice in relation to how residents were involved in their care planning. The Graham Care Group (GCG) is a group of nine care […]

Leading change A Quality, Health and Innovation Lead in the Nurse Development Team at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT) has developed a new placement model for  first year nursing students, to address variation in the experience and opportunities available to them. Where to look Supporting students within a practice-based placement presents a wide […]

A Patient Leader at NHS Nottingham City CCG talks about the important contribution that people with lived experience can make in helping to co-produce NHS services: Our son Avy is 8 years old. He is a lovely boy with an infectious smile. Avy also has complex needs and he requires a lot of additional support […]

The Chief Allied Health Professions Officer pays tribute to the winners in her second awards ceremony which took place at the Royal College of Physicians in London:  Over the past year Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) have been at the forefront of implementing the Five Year Forward View, improving services for citizens. Now, as we move […]

The Professional Head of AHPs at NHS Improvement reflects on the main findings of a new study: We always suspected that leadership of the Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in trusts varies hugely and is highly complex. Now we have proof: research commissioned by NHS Improvement from Kingston University found, for example, that 43 senior AHP […]