NHS England and NHS Improving Quality will be holding a major event on Saturday 16 November, to support the publication of new insight and evidence from the review undertaken by the NHS Services, Seven Days a Week Forum. The first stage of the review, established by NHS England as a key offer to NHS commissioners […]
Since the publication of this blog Tim Kelsey has left NHS England. Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s National Director for Patients and Information, speaks out on the launch of Participation Guidance for commissioners. THE most important goal of a modern health service is to achieve authentic patient participation: this is the central conclusion of the recent […]
Dr Janet Williamson, Director of National Improvement Programmes, explains how NHS Improving Quality is working alongside the NHS Services, Seven Days A Week Forum: NHS Improving Quality is building on the work of one of its legacy bodies, NHS Improvement, to support NHS England’s NHS Services, Seven Days a Week Forum build the evidence in […]
Dr Ann Driver, Head of Programmes Acute Care, NHS Improving Quality, explains why public engagement is so important to the 7-Days Services Forum: THE Learning Exchange Event we are staging in London today marks another major step forward as NHS England’s 7-Day Services Forum continues to gather evidence. We are bringing together a large number […]
The Project Appraisal Unit (PAU) The NHS England Project Appraisal Unit is a small specialist central team within NHS England Strategic Finance comprising of experienced capital investment and estates professionals who will be available to provide support to officers of NHS England at local Director of Commissioning Operations (DCO) offices, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, Regional Team, […]
The Local Government Association and NHS England have today published their planning ‘vision’ for how the pooling of £3.8 billion of funding, announced by the Government in the June spending round, will ensure a transformation in integrated health and social care. The ‘Integration Transformation Fund’ is a single pooled budget for health and social care […]
NHS England has today launched a new scheme inviting applications to oversee the NHS Innovation Fellowship that will help improve patient care and deliver value for money. The NHS Innovation Fellowship will bring together 15 world-class innovators to work with NHS senior leaders, clinicians and Academic Health Science Network leaders to embed and foster a […]
Since the publication of this blog Tim Kelsey has left NHS England. When patients are ignored, they are most at risk: that was the central conclusion of the report by Robert Francis QC into Stafford hospital. It has been at the centre of every NHS scandal – the quality of care is jeopardised if the […]
Since the publication of this blog John Holden has left NHS England. Your feedback Thank you, once again, to everyone who has taken the trouble to provide feedback, either here on the blog, or elsewhere. We are very grateful for all of your comments. There have been three broad themes emerging from recent feedback: What […]
NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) today published NHS Hospital Data and Datasets: A Consultation to explore how better extraction of information from hospitals’ data systems could help raise standards, improve safety, and reduce inequalities in patient care. The Hospital Data and Datasets Consultation asks for views on what information […]