News & Events

On 16th March 2023, the Service Change and Reconfiguration team held the inaugural Service Change Learning Network session.

Three-year delivery plan for maternity and neonatal services in England outlines the building blocks that are necessary to ensure the needs of women, babies and families are at the heart of services.

Join Bola Owolabi, Director of Health Inequalities, Vin Diwakar, Medical Director for Transformation, and Rhian Monteith, NHS Specialist Advisor (High Intensity Use), to find out how you can better support people who access A&E and are admitted to hospital more than expected.

The Diabetes Team have supported an innovative programme funding health inequalities projects across Cheshire and Merseyside and Lancashire and South Cumbria.

A new renal research centre at Northern Care Alliance will honour the legacy of our former colleague Professor Donal O’Donoghue OBE and continue his work to improve diagnosis, care and treatment for kidney patients.

The System Transformation team at NHS England are pleased to share a webinar: ‘Understanding and Managing Temporary Service Change.’ This webinar is part of a wider programme of learning and development for major service change and reconfiguration and will be delivered in collaboration with our partners CF and Hood and Woolf. Date: Tuesday 7th March 2023 Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm Registration: Here

The NHS England Board has approved plans to establish joint committees between NHS England and multi-ICB collaborations from 1 April - covering nine geographical footprints - that will oversee and take commissioning decisions on 59 specialised services.

Taken as a whole, the NHS is one of the largest landowners in England. It has an opportunity to intentionally manage its land and buildings in a way that has a positive social, economic and environmental impact.  

On the 30th January 2023 the joint NHS and DHSC Delivery Plan for Recovering Urgent and Emergency Care Services, a key commitment in the government’s Autumn Statement was published.

A series of top ten tips (developed by Sir David Pearson, Local Government Advisor in the System Transformation team) to support NHS colleagues at national, regional or system level further their mutual understanding and effective engagement with local authority partners can be viewed here.