16 May: NHS Commissioning Board » Blogs
The pace is picking up now in terms of establishing CCGs, with less than ten months left until the new system goes live in April 2013. Across the … Read more »Preparation for commissioning picks up pace – Barbara Hakin
14 May: Dementia » Alistair Burns’ blog
In this third blog about the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia, Alistair talks about creating dementia friendly communities, and … Read more »The PM challenge on dementia – creating dementia friendly communities, and improving dementia research
14 May: Long term conditions » Blogs
A doctor I know recently took over another clinician’s practice when they retired. He was apprehensive before he started; he was taking over from a … Read more »A story about long term conditions – Alf Collins
11 May: NHS Commissioning Board » Blogs
Recognised around the world Florence Nightingale’s birthday on 12th May is International Nurses Day. It is always a time for nurses to gather and … Read more »International Nurses Day – Jane Cummings
11 May: NHS Commissioning Board » Blogs
Over the past few weeks I have made a number of visits to the Kremlin, or at least that’s where the taxi driver said he was taking me. Perched … Read more »The Kremlin – Johnny Marshall
8 May: Long term conditions » Blogs
The Year of Care (YOC) programme has shown how to deliver services systematically for people with long term conditions, in a way that emphasises … Read more »How the Year of Care programme can improve services for people with long term conditions – Sue Roberts
3 May: NHS Commissioning Board » Blogs
It was great to see so many student nurses, nurse lecturers and education providers at the first Student Nursing Times Awards in London. How we … Read more »Celebrating the best in student nurse education – Jane Cummings
2 May: Dementia » Alistair Burns’ blog
In this blog Alistair talks about one strand of the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia. Key points The challenge covers three main areas: … Read more »Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia – improvements to health and care
2 May: Long term conditions » Blogs
Long term conditions are not ‘managed’ by health, social care or other government services, but by the people who live with them. For us and our … Read more »Harnessing patient voices – Don Redding, Director of Policy, National Voices
2 May: Long term conditions » Blogs
My name is Di Hopkins. I am 58 years old, married with two daughters. I have 3 long term conditions: type 1 diabetes (diagnosed in1963), … Read more »Living with long term conditions – Di Hopkins
2 May: Long term conditions » Blogs
My name is Jeff Hopkins and I am the husband of Di Hopkins. I am 75 and some years older than Di. Since I had a stroke 3 years ago and various … Read more »Caring for someone with long term conditions – Jeff Hopkins
1 May: Stephen Hale
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We surveyed the users of the DH website recently, as we’re obliged to each year by the Public Accounts Committee. We asked the standard … Read more »Acting on the annual user survey
24 Apr: Stephen Hale
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This is a blog about creativity culture and post-it notes. I worked in the Performance and Innovation Unit of the Cabinet Office for a bit. The unit … Read more »Post-it notes, performance and innovation
23 Apr: Modernisation of health and care » Simon Burns
Health Minister Simon Burns explains how better care and listening to patients can result in the NHS having to spend less money Later today, I will … Read more »Improving quality while saving money: is it really possible?
19 Apr: Chief Nursing Officer Bulletin » Voicepiece
I am delighted that Jane Cummings, previously Director of Nursing at NHS North, has been appointed as Chief Nursing Officer on the NHS Commissioning … Read more »Christine Beasley’s Voicepiece
11 Apr: Modernisation of health and care » Simon Burns
Health Minister Simon Burns highlights some of the great care being provided by NHS and social care staff across the country Over the past couple of … Read more »In praise of the service that never sleeps
10 Apr: Dementia » Alistair Burns’ blog
In this video blog Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia talks about the Prime Minister’s dementia challenge – a … Read more »The Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia
30 Mar: Dementia » Alistair Burns’ blog
In this blog Alistair talks about innovation in the NHS, and the potential to help people who suffer from dementia. In the UK 600,000 people … Read more »NHS innovation health and wealth
29 Mar: David Behan » Blogs
David talks about the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia to society about how we respond to people that have dementia to support them to … Read more »The Prime Ministers’s challenge on dementia
28 Mar: Medical Directors' Bulletin » Voicepiece
The discussion is over – the Bill is now law. We must now move on from the heated rhetoric and focus our attention on maximising the … Read more »Voicepiece – Bruce Keogh – March 2012
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