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“Creating a true partnership between services and the public.” BLMK Integrated Care System now a statutory body

Across England, all existing NHS clinical commissioning groups have now been replaced with statutory integrated care systems (ICSs).

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Read our Annual Report 2021-22

We're excited to share with you our Annual Report 2021-22.

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New mental health ward for young people

Plans are underway for a new interim mental health ward for young people at Luton and Dunstable Hospital.

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Lack of NHS dental appointments widens health inequalities

A new survey of public attitudes to NHS dentistry shows that half of the adults in England find dental charges unfair amid escalating living costs. We have warned decision-makers that NHS dentistry is in desperate need of...

Health Inequalities report

Perceptions of Health Inequalities in Milton Keynes

When people talk about access to health or care services being a ‘postcode lottery’, they are really describing inequality.

Autism Report

Autism Task & Finish Group

People in Milton Keynes regularly share with us their frustration at the lack of autism support services, and a need for more knowledge and awareness of the condition amongst health professionals.

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Jake's story: falling through the gaps

People often come to us when they are experiencing difficulties in accessing complex care pathways and need some help to navigate them. We heard from the mum of a young man with autism. Jake’s* autism means he has extreme hypersensitivity to pain.

COVID test

Where do you turn if your COVID record is wrong?

Many of us needed to interact with the NHS App to demonstrate our COVID vaccination status when we booked in to have our boosters, travel by plane and even to visit relatives in care. But where do you turn when your records are wrong?

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Climate change, health inequalities and a greener NHS

On the day that Milton Keynes could finally call itself ‘officially’ a city, Deputy CEO Tracy Keech and I attended a Climate Change and Health Inequalities conference at the Hotel La Tour in Central Milton Keynes.

Latest reports and publications

care home

Enter and View: Milton Court care home

We carried out an Enter and View visit of Milton Court care home in...

Minutes

Enter and View: Woburn Sands

We carried out an Enter and View visit of Woburn Sands care home....

Care home

Linford Grange: Enter and View

We carried out an Enter and View visit of Linford Grange care home in...

Minutes

Board of Trustees Minutes February 2022

All our Board of Trustees minutes are publicly available. Read the...