The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Strategy for England: AHPs Deliver spans 2022 – 2027 and leads on from AHPs into Action which spanned 2017 – 2021. The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Strategy for England: AHPs Deliver, has been developed to provide strategic direction to the AHP community across England, to help the AHP community and […]
Valproate Integrated Quality Improvement A national programme of support for integrated care boards was launched in November 2023 to make use of valproate as safe as possible, striving to eliminate the harm it causes to babies in the womb, while providing the best possible personalised care for patients and preventing deaths from epilepsy and/or bipolar […]
Children and young people with a learning disability, autism or both are 28 times more likely to have serious sight problems than other children. Despite this 44% of pupils in special schools have never had a sight test. The sensory project aims to make sure that every child who goes to a residential special school […]
Technical standards and guidance (health building notes/health technical memoranda documents) The documents have moved and can be accessed from this section of our website. Standard Department of Health and Social Care website protocol is to mark documents as ‘withdrawn’ as part of the redirect to our website. We are aware that this message on the […]
The Healthier You NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS DPP) is delivered across all integrated care systems (ICSs) in England by a framework of 5 providers. ICSs are new partnerships between the organisations that meet health and care needs across an area, to coordinate services and to plan in a way that improves population health and […]
To help NHS providers implement their corporate services transformation and to enable the NHS to share best practice, we are developing a toolkit of ‘how to’ guides and templates. We expect the NHS to keep delivering high-quality, good value corporate services and to do this, organisations need to change the way corporate services are delivered […]
Advice for trusts to ensure that their approach to job planning for allied health professionals (AHPs) is consistent with best practice. Job planning is an important way to link best use of resources with quality outcomes for patients and is a useful element in service redesign. By documenting professional activity in job plans, you can […]
In March 2020, 45 London NHS Chief Executive Officer’s signed an memorandum of understanding (MOU) that allowed staff to be redeployed rapidly across sites during the Level 4 emergency incident. They included all London ICSs, NHS England – London Region, Health Education England London Region, the London Ambulance Service, Higher Education Institutes, and NHS Blood and […]
The Occupational Health Service (OHS) at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust won the 2020 OH Team award from the Society of Occupational Medicine for their innovative response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their creative new and adapted offers lifted spirits and helped colleagues manage their physical and emotional wellbeing. The team is also supporting a COVID […]
Organisations are required under the Health Act 2009 and subsequent Health and Social Care Act 2012 to produce Quality Accounts if they deliver services under an NHS Standard Contract, have staff numbers over 50 and NHS income greater than £130k per annum. If you are a provider above this threshold, you will be required to publish your Quality Account for the […]