Last Autumn, NHS England launched the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) to support mental health Trusts and providers improve experiences of care for racialised communities by embedding new practices to promote anti-racism. All mental health providers must implement the framework by March 2025 and it will become part of the CQC inspection process. […]

The evidence is clear that if we want to improve outcomes for local populations, we need to embrace leadership at all levels of an integrated care system (ICS). NHS England’s guidance on effective clinical and care professional leadership (CCPL) supports this and sets out five core principles describing what ‘good’ looks like. Since its publication […]

The NHS has a huge footprint, with an estate spanning 25 million m2 – that’s equivalent to over 3500 football pitches. We have over 10,000 buildings, including 1,140 hospitals and 7,500 primary care sites. Much of the NHS estate in England consists of world-leading facilities that enable the NHS to deliver outstanding care for patients. […]

Across the country, there is a growing army of dedicated community health and wellbeing workers (CHWWs) who are playing a pivotal role in helping people who live in some of the country’s most deprived and under-served communities access vital health and care support. Complementing other important programmes across local systems, the CHWWs initiative is paying […]

Getting diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer at the age of 39 was a real shock. I’m a GP, active mother of two and always been fit and healthy. I don’t have a family history of cancer or any risk factors, so how could it happen to me? As a doctor, perhaps I played down […]

Our NHS is about people – patients, their families and loved ones and of course, the people who work in it. When I speak to colleagues who have chosen to work in the NHS, whatever challenges they face, they always put their patients at the centre of everything they do. In return, we must put […]