The chief nursing officer is one of four DoH officials joining the board from within the NHS. The others are medical director Sir Bruce Keogh, England’s CMO Sir Liam Donaldson and David Behan, the department’s director for social care.

The NQB, established in last summer’s Darzi review, will be responsible for monitoring quality within the NHS, and will produce an annual report comparing the English health service Read more »

Speaking at this week’s National Association of Primary Care conference in Liverpool, David Nicholson said that some trusts still saw PBC as ‘something PCTs give GPs to do’.

But PBC is ‘not something extra to make GPs happy’, he said. Rather, it is the key to ‘driving the change from being a nationalised industry to a much more diverse system’.

‘We still need to shift the Read more »