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Childhood asthma

Why is it important? Asthma is the most common long-term medical condition in children in the UK, with around one in 11 children and young people living with asthma. The UK has one of the highest prevalence, emergency admission and death rates for childhood asthma in Europe. Outcomes are worse for children and young people living […]

Statement on dental complaints

Produced by the Regulation of Dental Services Programme Board (NHS England, the NHS Business Services Authority, the Department of Health, the Care Quality Commission, the General Dental Council and Healthwatch England), this statement will help ensure there is a shared understanding of the correct route for complaints among regulators, commissioners and providers.

Personal Maternity Care Budgets: A new way forward

I’ve now been the Assistant Head of Patient Choice for three months and I increasingly feel that I’ve joined at the most exciting time for the Maternity Pioneers and the Maternity Transformation programme as a whole. NHS Change Day fell almost five months to the day that we announced the seven Maternity Pioneer sites and […]

NHS Standard Contract (shorter-form) 2017/18 and 2018/19: National Variation Agreement for existing 2016/17 shorter-form contracts

The detailed National Variation Agreement template (shorter-form contracts) is used to effect the NHS Standard Contract National Variation for 2017-19, in accordance with Option 3 in the Guidance on National Variations to existing 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 full length contracts and 2016/17 shorter-form contracts. It is relevant to commissioners and providers who are parties to an existing commissioning contract the duration of which extends beyond 31 March 2017.