NHS Benchmarking Network's International Mental Health Benchmarking programme is directly shaping national policy. Across two days, the Scottish Government and New Zealand's Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission, Te Hiringa Mahara, shared case studies showing exactly how.

NHS Benchmarking Network today published four new outputs from the National Audit of Care at the End of Life (NACEL), the national audit of the quality of care experienced by dying adults, and those important to them, in hospitals across England, Wales and Jersey. NACEL has been run by NHS Benchmarking Network since 2017 and is commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP).

This week, NHS England published a new Modern Service Framework (MSF) for cardiovascular disease prevention, which takes a cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic approach to improvement in patient outcomes. As the leading cause of premature mortality in England, this strategy (which outlines an ambitious 10-year vision to strengthen CVD prevention), is an important step in enhancing care to improve outcomes for millions of people. “Mission: to cut premature deaths from heart disease