A resource alert has been issued to support NHS providers to reduce harm leading to avoidable admissions of full-term babies. Resources to support safer care for full-term babies We’ve produced a resource to support staff in preventing avoidable admissions of full-term babies. It is a priority for the NHS to reduce avoidable harm that can lead to […]
This is the most recent version of the national Cancer Drugs Fund list, and replaces any earlier versions. It contains updates to the previous list, as well as new drugs and indications which have been added to the Cancer Drugs Fund. The list should be read in conjunction with Appraisal and Funding of Cancer Drugs from July 2016 […]
The Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) is a source of funding for cancer drugs in England. On 29 July 2016, a new approach to the appraisal and funding of cancer drugs in England began operating. To see which treatments are currently funded by the CDF, please see the Cancer Drugs Fund list. For further information on provider […]
NHS England has today (15 December) announced £101 million of new funding to support and spread the work of the new care model vanguards. The vanguards are partnerships of NHS, local government, voluntary, community and other organisations that are implementing plans to improve the healthcare people receive, prevent ill health and save funds. Considerable progress […]
Being able to stay healthy in later life is a crucial issue for all of us. We know that older people often do not feel supported to look after their own health, particularly people with multiple long term conditions, including frailty. This has a detrimental impact on their quality of life and health outcomes. How […]
The national new care models programme brings together local health and care systems as vanguards to radically redesign care for the local populations they serve. Tom Lindley used last week’s National Commissioning and Contracting Training Conference, to explain how the technology used in Airedale and Partners vanguard is changing care for people in care homes. Here, […]
New models of care, including the work of the vanguards, will be key to the delivery of sustainability and transformation plans, which are being developed across the country. Sutton Homes of Care (@SuttonHoC) are one of the vanguards participating at this week’s Patient First Conference and Lead Nurse, Caroline Pollington, explains how one small change […]
Back pain is the largest single cause of disability in the UK, with lower back pain alone accounting for 11% of the total disability of the UK population. Referrals for spinal surgery are increasing year on year and a growing number of patients are waiting longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment. Wide variations […]
Thousands of children and adults of all ages with conditions such as psychosis, depression and anxiety will be among the first to benefit from improved services as work starts on a major transformation programme for mental health care. ‘Implementing the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health‘, published today, outlines the changes people will see […]
NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Cancer explains why the Cancer Patient Experience Survey published last week is key to improving services: We focus far too often on the ‘clinical’ outcomes of treatment, without considering what that treatment was like for the patients themselves. But the experience of treatment and the care they receive is […]