This document outlines the data requirements for provider submissions to NHS England for charges associated to drugs funded by the cancer drugs fund and innovative medicines fund.

A National Patient Safety Alert has been issued by the NHS England National Patient Safety Team, co-badged by the Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group, instructing all relevant NHS funded providers to transition to NRFit™ connectors for all intrathecal and epidural procedures, and delivery of regional blocks. Transition […]

This National Patient Safety Alert has been issued by the NHS England National Patient Safety Team, co-badged by the Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group, instructing all relevant NHS funded providers to transition to NRFit™ connectors for all intrathecal and epidural procedures, and delivery of regional blocks.

Transition should be completed by 31 January 2025.

This standard operating procedure explains the end-to-end steps which will be taken by NHS England’s National Choice Team (NCT); and where appropriate, the choice provider qualification complaints panel, to facilitate a resolution between the provider and integrated care board.

This procedure outlines the factors to be considered in any proposed change to integrated care board and integrated care systems boundaries, the application process to be followed and the implementation steps should an application be approved by NHS England.

Classification: Official Publication approval reference: C1623 Overall aim To provide asymptomatic testing, as required by a clinically led risk-based approach, to elective care patients using primarily lateral flow devices (LFDs), or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests if clinically recommended, from 1 April 2022. This will enable patients on elective care pathways to test as advised […]

Classification: Official Publication approval reference: C1624 Overall aim To provide testing, as required by a clinically led risk-based approach, to inpatients, as outlined below, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and lateral flow devices (LFDs) from 1 April 2022. This will reduce the risk of nosocomial transmission and allow for action to be taken to […]

Through its core work to review patients safety events, recorded on national systems such as the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), the new Learn from Patient Safety Events service (LFPSE), and other sources, the National Patient Safety Team identified a patient safety issue where a neonate suffered an oesophageal perforation following endotracheal and nasogastric […]

In January 2023, the Centre for Perioperative Care published revised National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs 2), designed to reduce misunderstandings or errors and to improve team cohesion. The standards, written by clinicians from multiple professions and specialties, re-launches the WHO checklist. It mandates key stop moments when the standard pathway is confirmed and […]

National Patient Safety Alert on infection risk when using FFP3 respirators with valves or Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs) during surgical and invasive procedures.