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NHS operational planning and contracting guidance
2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance The 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance focusses on the recovery of our core services through continuous improvement in access, quality, and productivity, whilst transforming the way we deliver care and create stronger foundations for delivery in the future 2024/25 priorities and operational planning guidance Elective recovery fund technical […]
Delivering the Forward View: NHS planning guidance 2016/17 – 2020/21
This document, authored by NHS England, NHS Improvement (Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority), Health Education England (HEE), The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Public Health England (PHE) and Care Quality Commission (CQC), set out a clear list of national priorities for 2016/17 and longer-term challenges for local systems, together with financial assumptions and business rules.
2016 will bring fresh challenges for Allied Health Professionals
NHS England’s Chief Allied Health Professions Officer reflects on 2015 and looks ahead to the New Year: Christmas and New Year is a time when many of us are able to relax with family and friends, forget about the pressures of work for a few days at least and generally enjoy ourselves. But for the […]
Help the NHS charity choir get to number 1 this Christmas
NHS England is urging everyone in the UK to get behind a campaign to help the NHS reach number one in the charts this Christmas while supporting healthcare charities at the same time. “A Bridge Over You” performed by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust’s choir celebrates the work of NHS staff across the country. The […]
Pounds of pressure
Tom Jackson, Chief Financial Officer, and Matt Greene, Programme Project Accountant of Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, spoke at the recent CNO Summit. Here they reflect on the experiences they shared: There is a relentless pressure on budgets and resources in Liverpool. The city’s population is ageing and health outcomes are poor in many areas. NHS […]
Meeting new Congenital Heart Disease standards
Welcome to my second blog on congenital heart disease. As you know we are now the Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) commissioning and implementation programme, so our work is no longer about reviewing. Our focus now is on what needs to happen to meet the new CHD standards and make them a reality. We continue to work […]
More CCGs set to take on commissioning of GP services
NHS England is today announcing that another 52 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have been authorised to take on delegated responsibility for commissioning GP services. Delegated commissioning gives CCGs further opportunities to improve out-of-hospital services. It will support the development of the new models of care set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View and provides further opportunities to develop commissioning based on improved […]
Personalised care and support planning
Personalised care and support planning is a series of facilitated conversations in which the person, or those who know them well, actively participates to explore the management of their health and well-being within the context of their whole life and family situation. Personalised care and support planning is key for people receiving health and social […]
Enabling people to make informed health decisions
Health literacy The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) report Health literacy toolkit for low and middle-income countries defines health literacy as: “…the personal characteristics and social resources needed for individuals and communities to access, understand, appraise and use information and services to make decisions about health.” Health literacy is a two-sided issue, comprising both an individual’s […]