I said on my first day in this new job that five years in to the longest period of austerity the Health Service has ever seen, the stakes for the NHS have never been higher. So far our main response to NHS budget pressures has been an enormous and successful collective effort to keep the […]
Since the publication of this blog Dr Martin McShane has left NHS England. As Mental Health Awareness Week comes to a close, Dr Martin McShane, NHS England’s director for people with long term conditions, gives his definition of Parity of Esteem: Much has been said in the last few years about ‘parity of esteem’. It […]
Jane Cummings, has joined with her fellow Chief Nursing Officers of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to issue a rallying message to mark International Nurses Day. Together with counterparts Ros Moore of Scotland, Jean White of Wales, Charlotte McArdle of Northern Ireland and Siobhan O’Halloran, the CNO for the Republic of […]
Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for England, has today marked International Nurses Day by reflecting on the changing face of the profession. She said: “Nursing has changed dramatically in the 150 years since Florence Nightingale founded the first nursing school in London – undoubtedly for the better. “While compassionate care is still the guiding principle, […]
Following publication of NHS England’s Planning Guidance, four CCG leaders have agreed to give their perspectives on the planning process in their local health economies, providing insight with a series of blogs on the process of developing, and delivering, the two year and five plans in their area. In his latest blog Dr Nadim Fazlani, […]
More than seven million patients across the country will benefit from innovative pilot schemes trialing improvements to GP access, funded by the £50m Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund. Twenty GP collaborations were successful in their bids to the fund and have been awarded investment to run pilots for a year. The Challenge Fund has created great […]
Dr Geraldine Strathdee, National Clinical Director for Mental Health, who today addressed the National Psychosis Summit, details NHS England’s ambitions for the next five years: I have been fortunate to work with people with psychosis, and am full of admiration for them and their families. Admiration for how they live with this challenging condition in […]
Top down or bottom up? A question we ask time again in the health service, especially since the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act which was designed to give more influence to local clinicians in the commissioning process. However, whilst the structures have changed, the tensions still seem to persist between old and […]
Lessons learned during the first full year’s operation of Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) have been distilled into multi-media resources for sharing across the Health and Wellbeing community, so that HWB members across England can learn how their peers overcame challenges to progress system-wide strategic leadership. Drawn from experiences of individual Boards and Board members […]
By Professor Keith Willett, director for acute episodes of care, NHS England: We have just emerged from another winter where Accident and Emergency Departments up and down the country have been under unprecedented scrutiny. There was a great deal of expectation that the system would simply collapse due to the ever increasing demands placed on […]