Marking the first anniversary of AHPs into Action, the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer reflects on the significant contribution AHPs are making to improving health and care for patients and communities in England: As one of the first crowdsourced national policy documents in Europe, AHPs into Action was developed using national policy priorities, best available […]

Thanks to improved NHS cancer care, over two thousand more people are this year able to enjoy Christmas with their families. Survival rates have never been higher and the gap between the best and the worst areas is also closing. Areas with historically lower survival rates are closing or have caught up with average survival, […]

Note: Some sections of this case study refer to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). On 1st July 2022, integrated care systems (ICSs) took over statutory commissioning responsibilities in England, and CCGs were closed down. You can learn more about integrated care systems (ICSs) here. Case study summary Mundesley Medical Centre looked at the skills within the […]

NHS England has today published detailed plans – drawn up with family doctors and pharmacists – to cut out prescriptions for ineffective, over-priced and low value treatments. Helping to trim hundreds of millions from the nation’s rapidly growing drugs bill will create headroom to reinvest all savings in newer and more effective NHS medicines and […]

Jennie Walker marks the one year anniversary of the seven Maternity Choice and Personalisation Pioneer sites being announced, and explains why this is an important and formative time for Local Maternity Systems (LMS) across the country.  We are now in a fortunate position to learn from the Maternity Choice and Personalisation Pioneers’ experience to date […]

The independent Mental Health Taskforce published its Five Year Forward View in February 2016 which set out the current state of mental health service provision in England and made recommendations in all service areas. NHS England accepted all the recommendations in the report for which it held responsibility and it was agreed with the Government […]

We take a look back at a few of the highlights of our work over the last twelve months. January Back in January we announced that the first NHS hand transplants to be performed this year and by July the BBC were reporting how Chris King from Doncaster, who lost both his hands in an […]

As commissioners gather for the National Children and Adult Services Conference 2016, NHS England’s National Transformation Adviser for Children and Young People’s mental health considers the opportunities available to deliver the shared vision of Future in Mind. I have been thinking about the difference between Future in Mind being transformative and it being transactional. Put another […]

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has today (Tuesday) announced a £130m investment to kickstart the upgrade of radiotherapy equipment and transform cancer treatment across England. Around 4 in 10 of all NHS cancer patients are treated with radiotherapy, which typically uses high-energy radiation from a machine called a linear accelerator (‘Linac’). Radiotherapy is one […]

The New Care Models Zone is one of four feature zones at this year’s Health and Care Innovation Expo. The zone will explore the progress made by the 50 vanguards developing and testing new models of care that can be replicated across different health economies. Paul Maubach, reflects on some of the achievements of Dudley Multispecialty Community […]