Integrated Care & Social Care

Minister for Care calls upon recruitment agencies

24.03.20: Minister of State for Care, Helen Whately MP, has penned a letter to recruitment agencies operating with the health and social care workforce, calling on them to work with NHS and social care providers to help support the battle against the ongo...

Milton Keynes University Hospital opens new £15m cancer centre

11.03.20: A new £15m cancer centre has opened to patients at Milton Keynes University Hospital, bringing significant improvements to treatment and supporting the local area by bringing together previously spread out services. Prior to the opening...

Government announces taskforce to bolster local response to coronavirus

10.03.20: Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick has launched a new taskforce, bringing together senior experts across sectors to tackle the outbreak of coronavirus. Bringing together senior experts from across key sectors – including resili...

NHS Digital annual report shows increase in adult social care workforce

27.02.20: An additional 1,000 adult social services roles were filled in local authorities across England, according to the latest NHS Digital annual report on local authority-employed adult social care workforce in England. As of September 2019, the...

New state-of-the-art care home to open in Nottingham

18.02.20: A new state-of-the-art care home is set to be opened in Nottingham by early 2021, as part of an upcoming £30m trade park development in the city. Gedling Borough Council has approved planning permission for the 66-bedroom care home fo...

CAMHS: The state of play for children and adolescent mental health

14.02.20: National Health Executive’s Matt Roberts spoke with Whitney Crenna-Jennings, a senior researcher in mental health, wellbeing and inclusion at the Education Policy Institute (EPI) about their recently released CAMHS report.   ...

NHS Providers: Social care must be top priority for secretary of state

14.02.20: After the Prime Minister Boris Johnson underwent a reshuffling of his cabinet, and current Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, retained his role, NHS Providers have expressed their belief that social care must now be pri...

NHS Digital awards £4.5m to local digital adult social care projects

12.02.20: NHS Digital is overseeing the £4.5m investment into digital adult social care projects, with sixteen organisations across England set to receive a share of the money to enable them to roll out their local digital projects on a wider scale....

The rapid expansion of primary care. Is it a left shift or left drift?

10.02.20: Dean Royles and Kevan Taylor offer their expertise on providing strategic support, advice and development, as they build on previous thoughts around recent primary care changes. The proposed rapid expansion of primary care is very welcome a...

NHS Wales and ABPI launch new collaborative toolkit

06.02.20: The Association for the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) Cymru Wales has partnered with the Welsh NHS Confederation to launch a new toolkit to promote the pharmaceutical industry and NHS Wales working together for patients. The toolki...

NHS to benefit from digital "Redbook" app

05.02.20: As part of the NHS Digital Child Health programme, Personal Child Health Records or “Redbook” will receive a digital makeover. NHS Digital has considered the limitations of the physical Redbook and decided that digitalisation is...

Review of gender identity services for young people welcomed by RCPCH

03.02.20: The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has responded to NHS England’s review of gender identity development services. The review of services comes after NHS England put in place a new service specification for gender identi...

Health Foundation to explore data and tech in health and care

03.02.20: The Health Foundation has announced a ‘significant investment’ into developing a new programme of work aimed at analysing the impact of data analytics and technology on UK health and care. The new strategy, Data Analytics for Be...

Ep 3. From Turning Point to NHS Confed - Victor Adebowale CBE

31.01.20: Chief Executive of social care enterprise, Turning Point, Lord Victor Adebowale, joins us for the third NHE podcast, giving us insight into the difference he’s made during his 20 years at Turning Point and what he hopes to achieve in his n...

Nuffield Trust research: Worse quality of NHS for deprived areas

23.01.20: It might have seemed self-explanatory, but for those living in the most deprived areas of England there is now analytical evidence of a worse quality of NHS care and poorer health outcomes than those in the least deprived areas. This comes...