The NHS Standard Contract Technical Guidance 2016/17 is applicable to both the full length and the shorter-form version of the Contract. It offers broad advice about general contracting issues – including when the NHS Standard Contract should be used, contract signature, collaborative contracting, contract duration and extension, dispute resolution, and non-contract activity; and offers advice about both how key sections of the Contract should be completed and how the main contract management processes should be used in practice.

Friends and Family Test (FFT) gives patients the opportunity to submit feedback to providers of NHS funded care or treatment, using a simple question which asks how likely, on a scale ranging from extremely unlikely to extremely likely, they are to recommend the service to their friends and family if they needed similar care or treatment. Data on all these services is published on a monthly basis.

The Technical Guide to Allocation Formulae and Pace of Change for 2016-17 to 2020-21 revenue allocations to Clinical Commissioning Groups and commissioning areas has now been published. The technical guide sets out the methodology and actual calculation of the allocations which were agreed at the 17 December 2015 NHS England Board meeting and published on […]

This paper from the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA) provides estimates of the unavoidable costs associated with providing health care services in remote areas.

This paper from the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA) sets out NHS England’s current approach to addressing health inequalities in the allocation formula and explores whether the most recent evidence suggests there is
scope to improve this adjustment in the 2016-17 allocation round.

This paper presents the results of Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation’s (ACRA) to refresh and update the current CCG formula for use in 2016-17 allocations.

The final list of remote hospitals and details of, how if an adjustment were made in the target formula, the funding would reach providers.

This document sets out the approach for identifying unavoidably small remote hospitals and was presented to the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA).

This letter from Professor Peter Smith (Chair of ACRA) to Simon Stevens sets out ACRA’s recommendations on NHS allocations.

This letter from Professor Peter Smith, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA), to Simon Stevens advises that further work is needed on the specialised services formula.