The Chief Nursing Officer for England discusses the importance of Self Care Week that kicks off today. It’s that time of the year when the clocks have gone back, the days feel shorter and the weather gets colder. We all need to wrap up warm and particularly look out for those who are frail and […]
Medtech devices and apps will for the first time be included under NHS national payment rules helping to accelerate uptake, NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has announced today. The commitment to create a new Innovation and Technology Tariff was announced by Mr Stevens in June. Now following clinical review, the first six innovations have today […]
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens announces the next three concrete actions to implement the General Practice Forward View implementation. Speaking at the National Association of Primary Care Annual Conference in Birmingham, and to mark ‘NHS Change Day’, NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens will today unveil the latest action to support GPs and primary care sustain […]
In this latest blog from the Personalisation and Choice Group, NHS England’s Sam Bennett makes some crucial connections between key national change programmes that are delivering on the Five Year Forward View. “We have got to get our sleeves rolled up” – said Simon Stevens to a packed house earlier this summer at the NHS […]
NHS England has announced a two week extension on a scheme to fast-track cutting-edge innovations from across the globe to the NHS frontline. Developers of medtech devices and apps from around the world are called upon to join the new Innovation and Technology tariff, which provides a clear “route to market” for innovations. Hundreds of […]
In the last of our series of blogs about the Mental Health Implementation Plan launched earlier this week, nurse consultant Kate Chartres discusses how the model of liaison at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust supports patients through specialist clinics for people with co-morbid physical and mental health conditions: I have the pleasure of […]
17 June 2016, Manchester Morning Anita and thank you everybody for dragging yourselves out of bed, I hope you had a good evening. I did not have a chance to hear Jeremy yesterday, but I did hear Jim and I thought he was bang on the money, so really all I am going to do is […]
The Workstream Lead at Hartlepool & Stockton on Tees CCG, one of nine sites putting the Integrated Personal Commissioning Emerging Framework into action, shares how the programme is beginning to transform services for older people with complex health needs: As an area that had been part of the original pilot, commissioners in Teesside were already […]
The head of NHS England has announced the launch of a new programme to fast-track cutting-edge innovations from across the globe to the NHS frontline. In his keynote speech to around 1,000 NHS leaders at the NHS Confederation Conference in Manchester, Simon Stevens will announce that for the first time the NHS will provide an explicit […]
In the latest of a series of blogs on the Person-Centred Care programme, a GP from Islington looks at the role of Collaborative Care and Support Planning (CCSP) as an enabler for system transformation: Implementing wholescale change isn’t easy. In Islington we have been working to support general practice to offer proactive CCSP to people […]