Since the publication of this blog Dr Martin McShane has left NHS England. Dr Martin McShane, NHS England’s Director for Improving the Quality of Life for People with Long Term Conditions, sees innovation and people power at work: For a long time I have wanted to visit Dr Amir Hannan in his practice. Finally I […]
NHS England has produced a toolkit called ‘Any town’, which using high level health system modelling, allows clinical commissioning groups to map how interventions could improve local health services and close the financial gap. It is an additional guide to help commissioners with their five-year strategic plans, showing how a typical CCG could achieve financial […]
NHS England are running a number of webinars over the next couple of weeks to support local areas with their Better Care Fund (BCF) plans. 17 January 2014, 10.00 – 11.00: LGA Toolkit 17 January 2104, 14.00 – 15.00: Competition Workshop (MONITOR) 17 January 2014, 15:00-16:00: General 21 January 2014, 10:00-11:00: Pricing 22 January 2014, […]
NHS England are running a number of webinars over the next couple of weeks to support local areas with their Better Care Fund (BCF) plans. The first one is running tomorrow between 11am-12pm on the North West London example BCF plan. See here for details of upcoming webinars (including tomorrow’s) and how to register.
Kirstie Stott, an NHS Graduate Management Trainee, starts 2014 by examining why there are not more women in senior leadership positions: I have to admit that I am not a New Year fan; in fact I would rather be in bed reading a good book than singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’. However, seeing as it’s a […]
Dr Nadim Fazlani, Chair of Liverpool CCG and chair of the NHS Commissioning Assembly CCG Development Working Group, gives his thoughts on the complexities of planning for the future: ONE of the rituals in working in the NHS, at least for those of us involved in commissioning, is the annual operational guidance that arrives around […]
Jonathon Fagge, Chief Executive Officer of NHS Norwich CCG, on the planning challenges facing CCGs: THE integration of health and social care is presented by many as the best solution – the answer – to a wide range of challenges faced by the NHS. It has moved gradually from early pioneers, through to think tanks, […]
New clinical standards backed by rewards and sanctions NHS England’s National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh today sets out a plan to drive seven day services across the NHS over the next three years, starting with urgent care services and supporting diagnostics. He is publishing the findings of his Forum on NHS Services, Seven Days […]
National collaboration for Integrated Care and Support NHS England is one of the key partners on the National Collaboration for Integrated Care and Support. In May 2013, NHS England as one of the key national partners, signed up to a series of commitments on how we will support local areas in delivering integrated care and […]
Patients are set to benefit from changes to the GP contract which will reduce bureaucracy and free GPs to deliver personalised care. The changes will ensure that the most vulnerable patients receive personalised care. This will mean more patients can be looked after in the community and will reduce emergency admissions. GPs will be freed […]