NHS Confederation, NHS Clinical Commissioners, NHS Providers and the Local Government Association, have today (15 June) published a handy guide to the work vanguards are doing to engage their staff in the design and delivery of new care models. The new report – New Care Models and Staff Engagement: All Aboard aims to help spread […]
Thousands of people at high risk of Type 2 diabetes in ten areas will start to benefit from the first ever national NHS diabetes prevention programme in the next few weeks. The Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme launched in April and up to 100,000 people a year will benefit from it by 2020 and […]
In May 2016, NHS England announced it would be developing a personal health budgets model for the provision of wheelchairs. The intention is to introduce personal wheelchair budgets from April 2017, to cover everyone who accesses the current wheelchair voucher scheme, which includes those with both low level and complex wheelchair requirements. We want to […]
The Operational Coordinator for Young Carers in Focus at The Children’s Society reflects on the messages gleaned from Carers Week: There’s always a risk when your work is young person-centred, especially when the young people – like young carers – have multiple demands on their time and are dealing with complex issues in their lives. […]
Copies of ratified meeting minutes for the advisory group meeting held on the 20 April 2016.
Over £400m of potential savings that can reduce carbon emissions by 1 million tonnes The NHS could save over £400m and cut 1 million tonnes of carbon emissions every year by 2020 through making changes that can also benefit people’s health. A new report by the Sustainable Development Unit for NHS England and Public Health […]
A consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine looks at the work needed to tackle avoidable asthma deaths and emergencies: Settling back, with a glass of wine in hand, I have had the opportunity to reflect on the last year of the work of the National Paediatric Asthma Collaborative. This was formed from the CYP Strategic Clinical […]
A 51-year-old NHS England employee marks National Diabetes Week by talking about how she is now living with the illness after fighting it for three years: Diabetes is a serious disease and if it isn’t managed correctly it can be devastating. Many people are unaware of this and that’s why I’m writing this blog, […]
Commissioners must help “radically redesign” eye health services for the benefit of patients, the first-ever NHS eye health summit was told last week. CCGs at the “Demand and Capacity” conference heard that the need for change was now “critical”. Eye health leaders warned that inaction could have far-reaching social and economic consequences. National Head of […]
This document provides a Model Collaborative Commissioning Agreement for use by commissioners when they are commissioning healthcare services through the NHS Standard Contract on a multilateral basis – that is, where a group of commissioners collaborate to commission together, with one acting as the co-ordinating commissioner.