The Chair of the Children and Young People Steering Group updates on how the NHS is transforming care for children and young people with learning disabilities, autism or both who have behaviours that challenge and, or, a mental health condition:  It’s nearly a year since I began in my role as the Independent Chair of […]

Issued at 9.11am on Friday 12 January 2018 There is a 60 per cent probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions/heavy snow between 9.00am on Monday 15 January and 9.00am on Thursday 18 January in parts of England. This weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out […]

Friends and Family Test (FFT) gives patients the opportunity to submit feedback to providers of NHS funded care or treatment, using a simple question which asks how likely, on a scale ranging from extremely unlikely to extremely likely, they are to recommend the service to their friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment. Data on all these services is published on a monthly basis.

Information in relation to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Plan.

Oxford self-advocacy group, My Life My Choice run workshops to explain to GPs how important annual health checks are for people with a learning disability.

Thurrock Clinical Commissioning Group in Essex worked with their 32 GP practices to get an up to date list of everyone recorded as having a learning disability. The GPs then invited each of these people to go to their annual health check.

I am a learning disability and a learning disability is me. That doesn’t mean we’re all the same. Oxford self-advocacy group, My Life My Choice run workshops to explain to GPs how important annual health checks are for people with a learning disability. They hold sessions with GPs to explain how making small changes – […]

I got a bike and I have managed to lose a stone in weight. In Thurrock, the number of people with a learning disability who had a health check went up by 32 per cent in one year. By the end of 2016/17, 72 per cent of eligible people listed by their GP practice as […]

The National Joint Registry’s Medical Director outlines how it is helping to drive even greater patient safety and quality of care for joint replacement patients: Monitoring outcomes is the National Joint Registry’s (NJR) core function. As well as being a fundamental driver to improve patient centred care, NJR data now provides an important source of […]

The NHS has selected 138 entrepreneurs to design and deliver new technological solutions and innovations in healthcare. This includes the appointment of five healthcare scientists, tackling conditions including sickle cell disease and allergic reactions. The Clinical Entrepreneurs Programme, run by NHS England, supports NHS workers to work with, and learn from, leading health and technology […]