This guide sets the vision for clinical decision support (CDS) uptake across the NHS in England, highlighting its potential to improve the quality of care, outcomes and safety. It assimilates salient points from the literature and shares best practices to guide digital and clinical leaders at local and regional level on the implementation of CDS.
Patient safety culture Home Patient safety Patient safety culture Safety culture is one of the two key foundations of the NHS patient safety strategy. We define a positive safety culture as one where the environment is collaboratively crafted, created, and nurtured so that everybody (individual staff, teams, patients, service users, families, and carers) can flourish […]
Guidance detailing the clinical standards for the commissioning of anxiety management techniques for patients undergoing dental treatment in community and primary care settings.
The National Health Service (General Medical Services Premises Costs) Directions 2024 came into effect on 9 May 2024 and can be found at NHS primary medical service directions.
The Directions replace The National Health Service (General Medical Services Premises Costs) Directions 2013, which are revoked.
This tool was developed in 2019/20 as part of an NHS England commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN). The Chemotherapy Clinical Reference Group has made the tool available to providers who wish to improve their efficiency in reducing chemotherapy waste. It can automate the calculation of waste according to the method agreed by the NHS England Medicines Optimisation Committee.
The tool and accompanying user guide are available below
What this guide covers and offers This guide is for specialist perinatal mental health services and commissioners. It relates to the families of mothers receiving care from inpatient and community specialist perinatal mental health teams. This includes partners, grandparents of the baby, siblings of the baby, and any significant others identified by the mother. It […]
We welcome the recent launch of the Patient and carer race equality framework – NHS England’s first ever anti-racism framework, which requires every mental health service provider to become an actively anti-racism organisation and take concrete action to reduce racial inequalities. We support its implementation in NHS talking therapies for anxiety and depression services. Thanks […]
The actions which need to be completed by care homes, GP practices and community pharmacies are described below. Step 1. GP practice and care home data sharing agreement The Care home lead and the GP practice lead must create a high-level data sharing agreement that sets out: what information is going to be shared between […]
The Message Exchange for Social care and Health (MESH) tool helps overseas visitor managers (OVMs), working in secondary care, to identify possible non-UK residents who are required to pay for provided healthcare.
Part of a suite of documents to help guide the teaching content and practical assessment in both the MPharm and the Foundation Training Year. They are not compulsory, but are guides to support educators.