21 June 2019 - NHS England’s chief executive Simon Stevens was in Manchester this week at the NHS Confederation conference, delivering his latest vision of what lies ahead for the health service.

Among his many announcements, he told NHS managers that patient services would have to continue to evolve, and sent a message to politicians that the NHS needed more money and more hospital beds.

Any such chief executive keynote speech also needs some good news, to show the NHS isn’t just ‘firefighting’ but also moving forward and improving patient services.

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