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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]