Joint response to a learning review looking into how the system responded to concerns about poor quality of care and poor trainee experience at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (NMUH). NHS Improvement, NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) have published a joint response to a Deloitte learning review looking into how the system […]
NHS England is going to recruit doctors from ‘Down Under’ in the latest initiative to boost GP numbers. The international recruitment drive is being widened to Australia after the NHS successfully encouraged applications from more than 1,200 GPs in Europe. NHS England will target GPs who left the UK for Australia and are looking to […]
To mark the NHS’s 70th birthday year, Yvonne Coghill, Director of the Workforce Race Equality Standard at NHS England, will today (20 September) visit a London college to help promote careers in the NHS. Yvonne will attend St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College in London and give an assembly to over 200 students studying health […]
National celebrations at Westminster Abbey and York Minster will pay tribute to NHS staff and patients to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday on Thursday 5 July 2018. Participants in the Westminster Abbey service include Freya Lewis, a survivor of the Manchester terror attack suffering 29 separate injuries, and Dr Martin Griffiths, a leading NHS trauma […]
We have implemented a cross organisational group, which is committed to make improvements and address issues around exception reporting practices and culture for junior doctors. Exception reporting is a contractual mechanism which doctors in training can use to report patient safety, rostering and training concerns. Trainees and trusts have encountered challenges following the introduction of […]
In the weeks before the NHS’s 70th birthday, one in eight of the Queen’s Birthday Honours have been awarded for contributions to health, including more than 60 awards to NHS staff. Midwives, nurses, psychiatrists, GPs and volunteers are among the wide range of people honoured for their work in the health service. NHS staff have […]
Over 12 million people will soon benefit from better joined up NHS and social care as four more areas, covering four and a half million extra people, are today (Thurs) given more control to improve local services. NHS England chief Simon Stevens and Ian Dalton, head of NHS Improvement, have called on the NHS to […]
Today was the first public board meeting in common for NHS England and NHS Improvement where we agreed a new way of working, and discussed how local NHS services can better work together and the NHS’ 2018/19 operating plan. The National Health Service is turning 70 on 5 July 2018. Over the last seven decades […]
Today was the first public board meeting in common for NHS England and NHS Improvement where we agreed a new way of working, and discussed how local NHS services can better work together and the NHS’ 2018/19 operating plan. The National Health Service is turning 70 on 5 July 2018. Over the last seven decades […]
NHS teams across England have today (Friday 18 May) announced the individuals and teams they have chosen as regional champions in a prestigious competition to mark the NHS’s 70th birthday. The champions – including NHS porters, volunteers, patients, chief executives and local council health teams – will now vie with each other for a national award […]