A planning matrix has been developed to help NHS colleagues assess how their work is helping to reduce health inequalities and ensure high quality healthcare for all. The Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Planning Matrix outlines key areas for consideration when services are designed, implemented, and evaluated. The matrix is being used by national NHS programme and […]
The National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement team supports the health system to reduce healthcare inequalities. Our vision is to deliver exceptional quality healthcare for all through equitable access, excellent experience and optimal outcomes. Several strategic drivers from the NHS and government inform, guide and support us in our work. NHS Long Term Plan The 2019 NHS […]
Inclusion health is an umbrella term used to describe people who are socially excluded, who typically experience multiple overlapping risk factors for poor health, such as poverty, violence and complex trauma. This includes people who experience homelessness, drug and alcohol dependence, vulnerable migrants, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, sex workers, people in contact with the […]
Eight out of the ten local authorities in the UK with the highest rates of child poverty are in the North East and Cumbria. The region also has a higher proportion of people living in the 20% most deprived areas than the national average. Poverty and low income are known factors which influence people’s health, […]
In the Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) directorate we believe that better insights, lead to better decisions and ultimately better health. Good quality, robust data helps us to understand more about local populations and the care and treatment they receive, enabling us to target action where it is most needed. We have long known […]
Menopause can be defined as the natural stage in every woman’s life when a woman’s periods stop and her ovaries lose their reproductive function. The medical definition of menopause is when you have not had your monthly period for at least 12 consecutive months. This usually happens between the ages of 45 and 55 but […]
Applicable Frameworks such as those offered through the Digital Care Services (DCS) Catalogue or through Health Services Support Framework (HSSF) should be used wherever possible. Where practices, CCGs, PCNs and ICS cannot do this and therefore choose to procure clinical systems and digital technologies (the “product”) which include hosting patient identifiable information through local arrangements […]
General responsibilities General Financial Cyber and data security NHS England Set national strategic direction Provide strategic leadership for local commissioners Maintains Primary Care (GP) Digital Services Operating Mode. Delegates GP IT responsibility to CCGs GP IT assurance CCG Assurance Issues NHS England Financial Guidelines Funding Allocation Strategic direction for cyber and data security CCG […]
This updated Operating Model continues to address six contemporary challenges. Challenge 1: Keeping general practice and patients safe Challenge 2: Supporting general practice deliver their contracted services Challenge 3: Enabling service improvement, transformation and digital innovation Challenge 4: Supporting new models of care and contracts Challenge 5: Supporting general practice meet patients’ digital expectations Challenge […]
Clinical commissioning boards (CCGs) should exercise best practice and comply with NHS England financial guidance and local Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) in the commissioning, procurement and contract management of GP digital services. These activities will ensure: value for money compliance with procurement legislation and internal SFIs. CCGs will ensure procurements are compliant with the standards […]