The head of NHS England today (Wednesday) issued a clarion call to health care leaders to redesign the care of patients across the NHS so that it is sustainable for the future and better able to meet the needs of patients. Speaking to delegates at the NHS Annual Conference in Liverpool, Simon Stevens set out […]
Simplifying the patient journey and improving the patient experience are among the key priorities for NHS111. Dr Ossie Rawstorne, National Medical Adviser to NHS111, said as well as these aims, the ambition was for “the patient experience to be consistently good across the entire system”. Speaking at the NHS111 Focus on Futures event held in […]
More than 200 delegates are expected to attend the NHS111 Focus on Futures conference in Manchester today. They will hear about exciting new developments being planned for the service which already fields more than one million calls a month. Keynote speakers will include Beverley Bryant, NHS England’s Director of Digital Technology, who will focus on […]
The NHS today (20 May) invites expressions of interest from hospitals across England interested in developing new ways of delivering and improving their local acute services. The aim is to enhance the viability of local hospitals through new formal shared working arrangements between clinical specialists at different hospitals, and to improve efficiency by sharing back […]
Work on implementing the NHS Five Year Forward View (FYFV) is happening at pace and all eyes are now on the New Models of Care programme with the recent launch of the Vanguard sites. And the Integrated Personal Commissioning demonstrators are moving from planning to delivery. There’s real energy, commitment and passion, which is fantastic to […]
The announcement of the Mental Health Taskforce shows that mental health is now at the leading edge of transforming England’s health system. It also means that mental health is at the forefront of delivering the NHS Five Year Forward View modernisation. People who have experienced mental ill health, those who commission and provide services, academics […]
The new models of care will only become a reality if we have enough staff with the right skills, values and behaviours to deliver them. We need to develop a workforce able to work across settings and traditional professional demarcations, with flexible skills. The Pioneer Programme: Works with Health Education England, the Royal Colleges and […]
This page contains tools to support the change and improvement required to deliver integrated care models. Leadership Documents Building Collaborative Teams – Integrated Care Pioneer workshop guide White Paper: The new era of thinking and practice in change and transformation: A call to action for leaders of health and care Useful links NHS Leadership Academy […]
The NHS has today (Tuesday 10 March) chosen the first 29 ‘vanguard’ geographies that will take the national lead on transforming care for patients in towns, cities and counties across England. 269 groups of nurses, doctors and other health and social care staff from across the country put forward their ideas for how they want […]
These pages contain a collection of tools, information and useful links to help Pioneers to deliver integrated services to the local community. If you have any suggestions on useful improvement tools, please let us know at england.integrationpioneers@nhs.net Annual report Since the launch of the programme, annual reports have been produced to show the progress made and […]