Luke O’Shea, NHS England’s Head of Patient Participation, explains why a “quiet ministerial announcement” is so significant. Last week in Parliament, ministers quietly made an announcement : From October next year, thousands people in receipt of Continuing Health Care funding will gain a new legal ‘right to have’ a Personal Health Budget. The announcement went […]
Professor Keith Willett, NHS England’s Director for Acute Episodes of Care, and who is also leading Professor Sir Bruce Keogh’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review, explains how and why 7-Day Services could be made to work across the NHS. Having introduced 24/7 services with resident consultants while heading the John Radcliffe orthopaedic trauma clinic at […]
Professor Norman Williams, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Seven Day Consultant Presence Care Group Chair and President of the Royal College of Surgeons, calls for collective responsibility: Illness is no respecter of time or boundaries. It can occur anywhere, at any time of the day or night, and a sudden onset of sickness or pain […]
Simon Bennett, NHS England’s Deputy Director Quality Framework Team, examines the issues surrounding 24/7 care: I want to focus on two things in this latest blog – the NHS Services, Seven Days a Week Forum as it prepares to publish its initial insight and evidence later in the autumn, and NHS England’s recent AGM. The […]
NHS England’s National Medical Director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, has warned patients and health care professionals the introduction of seven day services will be “difficult and radical.” Sir Bruce also issued a challenge calling them to “be up for it” as he addressed a 7-Days Services workshop staged before NHS England’s inaugural Annual General Meeting […]
NHS England’s Deputy Medical Director, Mike Bewick, calls for GPs to help shape the future of primary care: As an experienced GP who has worked in both acute and primary care in Cumbria for over 20 years, I know too well the pressures facing colleagues across the country. GPs see over one million people every […]
Andrew Snowball, the Health Service Journal’s Head of Engagement, explains how the magazine’s readers are supporting the call for 24/7 care: There is a growing sense of inevitability behind the recent calls for the NHS to be a seven-day service. In June, health secretary Jeremy Hunt described the new £3.8bn social care commissioning pot – on […]
Cancer patients experience of care, is improving with 88 percent of patients reporting their care was either excellent or very good. The national cancer patient experience survey published today reported the views of 116,000 cancer patients in all 155 NHS Trusts that provide treatment to patients with cancer. The survey showed improvements in many areas […]
Long term conditions are coming in from the cold. We’ve known for many years now that they were the future of health – but mostly we talked about possible solutions and theorised about the size of their impact, and just carried on treating individual conditions as best we could. The problem grew and grew, until […]
NHS England’s national prevention programme aimed at improving outcomes for patients who develop hospital associated Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) has been shown to save lives in the results of a study undertaken at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Blood clots or VTE can commonly follow hospitalisation and cause thousands of deaths each year in the […]