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NHS England publishes new clinical commissioning policies and policy statements for specialised commissioning
NHS England has published clinical commissioning policies and policy statements in support of its role as the direct commissioner of specialised services.
NHS England’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and board meeting
Agenda and papers for NHS England’s Annual General Meeting on 12 September 2013 and board meeting on 13 September 2013 are available.
NHS England’s advisory groups announce interim chairs and patient and public voice representatives
NHS England has announced the recruitment of four respective patient and public voice (PPV) representatives to its Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG) and Rare Disease Advisory Group (RDAG).
Future hospital report fuels seven day service debate
Professor Keith Willett, NHS England’s national clinical director for acute episodes of care, has welcomed a report by the Royal College of Physicians’ Future Hospital Commission.
Final three specialties publish consultant outcomes data
The remaining three of ten specialist surgical societies have published outcomes data for individual hospital consultants, including mortality rates. This completes the staged ‘pilot’ publication of this data that started in June this year.
7-Day services forum’s five work streams give initial findings – interview with Celia Ingham Clark
The NHS Services, Seven Days a Week Forum has reached a significant milestone, with each of the five work streams reporting on their initial findings. Celia Ingham Clark talks about this.
HSJ online conversation gives backing to 7-day services
Andrew Snowball, the Health Service Journal’s head of engagement, explains how the magazine’s readers are supporting the call for 24/7 care.
Health minister and health professionals network to learn from sight loss simulator – the Eye Pod
Health Minister Lord Howe and delegates at NHS England’s Local Professional Networks (LPN) Assembly have been invited to visit the Royal National Institute for the Blind’s sight loss simulator, the Eye Pod.
NHS England encourages NHS staff to get vaccinated against flu this winter
As the NHS approaches its busiest time of year, NHS England are encouraging staff to take steps to protect individuals in their care as well as protecting themselves, their colleagues and family by getting a flu jab.
Videos and other resources from the AGM held on 12 September 2013
Conversations and highlights from the AGM held on 12 September 2013 are available.
Patients are at the centre of new ward inspection regime
The new Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment were introduced with the key purpose of ensuring patients are at the centre of all inspections of hospital environments, and the inspection findings have been published.
NHS services, seven days a week
The NHS Services, Seven Days a Week Forum was established earlier this year by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director. Supporting the NHS in moving towards more routine services being available seven days a week is a key offer in Everyone Counts: Planning for Patients and an important part of stimulating new, innovative approaches to providing services and ensuring every patient gets the care they need. As a first stage, the Forum is focusing on urgent and emergency care and diagnostics. The Forum is due to report in the autumn.
What’s your 6Cs story?
Each month NHS England, in association with Nursing Times, runs a story of the month competition to find the best examples of compassionate nursing practice. So don’t miss your opportunity tell us about the great work that you or your team are doing to support the 6Cs and get your submission in by Friday 27 September.
Diabetes UK Type 2 diabetes campaign
Beginning on 23 September, and supported by NHS England and Public Health England, Diabetes UK is launching the largest ever Type 2 diabetes awareness campaign. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the risk factors of Type 2 diabetes and enable people to understand their risk of developing the condition. Advertising will drive people to Diabetes UK’s online risk score or into pharmacies for an assessment with information on what people should do next, depending on their risk level, and which could include visiting their GP. The charity has written to all GP surgeries across the UK as well as professional organisations to advise about the campaign.
The Driving Up Quality Code
This code has been developed by the provider sector as a response to Winterbourne View. Providers and Commissioners are being invited to sign up to the Code to drive up quality and be open and transparent about what they are doing to meet it.
Book your place on this year’s Future of Healthcare International Conference – Meeting the Challenge of Long Term Conditions
The Future of Health conference in London on 3-4 October will set the pace of change for long term conditions, multimorbidity and integrated care. Run by NHS England and UCL partners, the event will act as a national platform for policy debate and sharing of successful practice. It will equip health and care professionals with the tools they need to make changes to the commissioning and provision of services, and establish a collaborative community through which professionals can provide the highest quality care and better outcomes for patients. Book your place.
Have your say on bulletins
We are conducting a short survey to help us review our bulletins and make them more relevant, timely and useful to you. Please have your say and help us to improve our communications with you by completing the survey before it closes on 4 October.
Blogs
NHS England’s 1st Annual General Meeting: the public’s voice
Read the Patient and Public Voice team lead, Olivia Butterworth’s blog.
General Practice: A call to action
Read NHS England’s deputy medical director Mike Bewick’s blog which calls for GPs to help shape the future of primary care.
Turning points – David Nicholson
Read David Nicholson’s blog.
Working to shape a programme of support for the NHS – Janet Williamson
Dr Janet Williamson, director of national improvement programmes, explains how NHS Improving Quality is working alongside the NHS Services, Seven Days a Week Forum.
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