The next Board meeting will take place on Thursday 6 March at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Congreve Room, Quarry Hill, Leeds. Start time is 09.30am. If you would like to attend, please register your interest at england.boardattendance@nhs.net. and let us know if you have any additional requirements. Please note that members of the public are welcome […]
Since the publication of this blog Dr Mike Durkin has left NHS England. A new report sets out a number of recommendations on how ‘never events’ can be eliminated from NHS surgery. Dr Mike Durkin, NHS England’s Director of Patient Safety, explains the key recommendations and the next steps to them action across the NHS: […]
A new report published today by the Surgical Never Events Taskforce has made a series of recommendations for new standards and systems to further improve the safety of surgery in English hospitals. In response, NHS England has committed to identifying practical ways to take forward the report’s recommendations to eradicate never events from surgical procedures. […]
NHS England has received an impressive 80 nominations for the first ever Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care, to be presented at the Health and Care Innovation Expo on 4 March. Kate Granger, a doctor terminally ill with cancer, will present the awards and share her intensely personal views on the levels of compassion demonstrated […]
Getting up close and personal on the eve of his retirement, Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of NHS England, will sit down with the Guardian journalist, David Brindle, to reflect on his 36-year career in the NHS. Book your place on Tuesday 4th March at 10:30 and sign up for the exciting program of talks […]
NHS England today publishes the results of the 2013 NHS Staff Survey which was carried out between September and December 2013. Over 265 NHS organisations and twice as many staff as last year (203,000) responded. Key findings include: Staff engagement: The survey includes a basket of indicators designed to measure staff engagement which is key […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Your feedback We have been asked whether investigations into the quality of care at local congenital heart units are linked to the work of our national review.The answer is that although they are separate from our review, we are receptive to any lessons […]
Dr Jon Griffiths, Chair of NHS Vale Royal CCG and a GP at Swanlow Practice in Winsford, Cheshire, rues the fact that he will be missing Innovation Expo 2014: The Health and Care Innovation Expo 2014 will be hosted by NHS England next month on March 3-4th and, as might be expected, the hope is […]
NHS England is today launching the start of the process to create a unique framework agreement for commissioning support services. The lead provider framework will allow Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s), NHS England and others to buy some or all of their commissioning support needs, ranging from non-frontline support services to bespoke services that support local […]
NHS Medical Director, Sir Bruce Keogh has given his seal of approval to the first hospital in the country dedicated to providing emergency care every day of the week. Due to open in 2015, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington will have specialist emergency care consultants working round the clock to provide care for […]