Behind a discreet door at Crawley Hospital, staff from the Sussex Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) offer help and support to people who have been raped or sexually assaulted. The centre is called Saturn and the number of people walking through its door is increasing each year. In 2015/2016 the team of specially trained doctors, […]

Emily Prior, Communications and Engagement Manager at NHS England (South), blogs about the importance of communicating accessibly. I recently hosted a training day for health and social care colleagues from Transforming Care Partnerships across the south of England. We came together to master the art of producing easy read material – created specifically to help people with […]

Last week health and social care professionals, and families and carers of individuals with a learning disability, flocked to the NHSE South Learning Disabilities Morality Review (LeDeR) programme Share & Learn Event in Reading. The LeDeR programme is all about reducing premature deaths of people with learning disabilities. It does this by supporting local reviews of deaths […]

Nigel Acheson, Regional Medical Director and Chair of the Cancer Priority Programme Board, NHS England South Saturday 2 February marked World Cancer Day 2017, an opportunity to unite against cancer, raising awareness of the disease and promote prevention activity. In my capacity as the chair of NHS England South’s Cancer priority programme board, it is […]

Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network (TV SCN) today published the results of a Thames Valley-wide audit of patients diagnosed with cancer after going to hospital following an emergency presentation. The audit also reviewed the entire patient journey for a selected number of these patients. This significant research project was commissioned by the Thames Valley Strategic Clinical […]

Today we celebrate Young Carers Awareness Day (YCAD) – a day to remember the huge amount of care provided by 700,000 incredible young people across the UK. Thousands of young people have the huge responsibility of caring for a loved one, often helping out in practical ways by directly supporting a sibling for example, or […]

Before starting my role as NHS England’s South Regional Medical Director I spent my career working as a gynaecologist. I fully support and endorse Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (January 22-28). Cervical cancer treatment has been revolutionised since I started my career and we are now able to save many more lives than in the past. […]

Every day 9 women in the UK are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3 women will lose their lives to the disease. Cervical cancer is the most common cancer in women under 35 but is largely preventable thanks to cervical screening and the HPV vaccination programme. But, statistics show that the number of women aged […]

NHS England is again urging people to take steps to stay well this winter and get their flu vaccination. Almost 320,000 thousand adults and children have already had the vaccine in Kent and Medway. But many people in vulnerable at risk groups have still not been vaccinated. The latest figures released by Public Health England […]

NHS England South, together with the Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), will run a third event in January to support partners improve carer health and wellbeing. Carer leads in clinical commissioning groups, local authorities, the third sector and carer representatives, are invited to join the Caring Together event on Thursday 26 January, which forms […]