This bulletin from Health Education England (HEE) aims to keep audiences and stakeholders aware of what is happening in relation their overall programmes of work and in particular how they are responding to the Shape of Caring review.

It covers:

  • Responding to Raising the Bar
  • Responding to the Shape of Caring review
  • Green light for Nursing Associate role
  • Exploring the Shape of Caring review themes
  • Introducing our Florence Nightingale Fellows
  • The role of Health Visitors in mental health

Highlights in the PHE monthly bulletin include:

Highlights for this bulletin include:

  • sustainability and transformation plans guidance
  • report on trends in life expectancy at older ages
  • unnecessary antibiotics prescriptions reduced in new trial
  • results of PHE stakeholder survey 2015 to 2016 published
  • middle aged men rate their health as more important than money or career
  • Scotland leads hepatitis C patient notification exercise
  • renewed funding for drug and alcohol treatment services
  • Zika virus: guidance updated