The agenda and meeting papers for the NHS England Board meeting on 28 November 2018.

Taking place on Wednesday 28 November from approximately 11am at Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH. View a live stream of the Board meeting Take a look at the Board papers

Leading change The Senior Nursing Lecturer in the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham led on the development and implementation of ‘Improvement Labs’. These were designed to support staff to embed high quality care. This programme has led to improved experiences and use of resources within the engaged organisations. Where to look […]

Leading change The Children and Young People Lead Nurse at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STHFT) led the development of transition services including its clinical pathways for children and young people (CYP) with complex care needs. This change, focussing on the transition of care from children’s health services into adult health services has led to improved experiences […]

Leading change Tissue Viability Nurses at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust led on the development and implementation of a new standardisation approach to venous leg ulcers within the community. This programme of work has addressed unwarranted variation in venous leg ulcer treatment and management in order to deliver better outcomes, experience and use of resources […]

The first children to receive a game-changing personalised therapy for cancer will start treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London this week. A second centre, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, is also ready to start treating children with a rare form of leukaemia while a third, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is expected […]

As the NHS celebrates 70 years of providing health services in primary care, a new film, ‘I’d like to see a clinical pharmacist’, takes a look at a new development in a GP practice in Bournemouth. Westbourne Medical Centre is employing a clinical pharmacist to carry out clinical medicines reviews as part of its integrated, multidisciplinary team dealing with complexity in primary care.

In May, I was delighted to meet more than 120 young people to hear their priorities for the future of mental health care. It was a remarkable event organised by NHS England and Young Minds. The young participants told us what mattered to them, their friends and families, and what they needed to have more […]

These documents provide aggregated Better Care Fund (BCF) quarterly reporting data, to report ongoing progress on BCF plans.

This document provides the aggregated planning data submitted nationally on the Better Care Fund (BCF) planning template for the relevant BCF planning cycle. The data includes BCF funding sources, planned expenditure, confirmation of BCF national conditions and planned trajectories for the four BCF metrics. This data is aggregated and itemised at a Health and Well Being board footprint.