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Supporting clinical decisions with health information technology

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

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 […]

Guide to the changes to primary care premises policy

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.

 

Chemotherapy waste data collection and evaluation tool

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

Introduction

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 […]

Advancing ethnic equalities in NHS talking therapies services

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 […]

Identifying overseas visitors – user guide to the Message Exchange for Social care and Health (MESH)

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.