NHS England today highlighted the significant work it is leading to improve the safety of patients as part of a co-ordinated response to the Francis Report. In the coming months NHS England will: Launch Patient Safety Collaborative Programmes in a network covering the entire country – that will bring together frontline teams, experts, patients, commissioners […]

Rachel Cashman, Head of Collaboration for Excellence, explains how NHS England will deliver the 3millionlives programme: As we all know, we have a growing elderly population, a growing number of people with Long Term Conditions (LTCs), and growing numbers of people with multiple LTCs.  That is putting an increasing strain on already stretched NHS resources. […]

Patients, clinicians and other key stakeholders are being encouraged to give their views on the future of specialised health services, and how they are to be provided by the NHS over the next five years. NHS England is inviting patients, patient groups, commissioners,  clinicians and others to a special event in December as part of […]

The National Clinical Directors and National Specialty Advisers are practising clinicians from across England who work part-time at NHS England, providing clinical leadership, advice, input and support across distinct areas of NHS conditions and services ranging from cancer and cardiovascular disease to urgent and emergency care and major trauma in line with the NHS Long […]

Dr Geraldine Strathdee, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental Health, lays down a marker for World Mental Health Day. It is exciting to be in this role at a time when we have the national strategy of “No health without mental health”, and an NHS Mandate that makes an historic commitment to deliver “parity” […]

Since the publication of this blog Dr Mike Durkin has left NHS England. Today, Professor Don Berwick publishes his report on the safety of patients in England. I had the pleasure of supporting his advisory group as they carried out their huge amount of academic research and engagement with professionals and the public, so I […]

NHS England will today (Friday 28 June) begin the staged publication of mortality rates for individual hospital consultants in ten specialties, a major breakthrough in NHS transparency. It is leading a drive to give patients more information about their treatment, helping the NHS drive up and maintain the quality of care. The data – covering […]