This quick guide to NHS Continuing Healthcare describes how Integrated Personal Commissioning and personal health budgets can benefit and be delivered to those in receipt of NHS Continuing Healthcare.
NHS England is publishing new guidelines today that will strengthen the management of conflicts of interest and ensure that the NHS is a world leader for transparent and accountable healthcare. The guidance will permit staff, such as nurses, to receive a box of chocolates or other small tokens of gratitude from patients but will require […]
This shorter-form Contract User Guide is about the shorter-form version of the NHS Standard Contract 2017-19. It explains when and how the shorter-form Contract should be used.
This guide helps to ensure that ensure that annual reports meet the needs of patients and the public, CCGs, NHS England staff and relevant stakeholders. Building on existing best practice in reporting, it has been co-produced with representatives from CCGs, local Healthwatch, and local and national voluntary sector organisations.
This Guide is about the new shorter-form version of the NHS Standard Contract. It is for commissioners and providers who may use the shorter-form Contract, and who will have to deal with contracts. It explains when and how the shorter-form Contract should be used.
This is the draft version of the NHS Standard Contract shorter-form User Guide 2016/17, published to accompany NHS England’s statutory consultation in February 2016.
Guide is part of joint ‘Working with communities – empowerment, evidence and learning’ project A new guide from NHS England and Public Health England has identified how local government and the NHS have important roles in building confident communities to improve health and reduce inequalities. The guide states the move to a new health system, […]
NHS England has published a new Practical Guide to Healthy Ageing with Age UK, to help people improve their health and general fitness, particularly those aged 70 or over with ‘mild frailty’. The evidence-based guide covers key areas that have been identified as the main risk factors for older people living at home, but if they […]
When Sir Bruce Keogh was NHS Medical Director, he commissioned a guide to the NHS for junior doctors. At the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management conference in October 2013, he committed to updating this guide to reflect the changes in the new NHS. NHS England have today fulfilled this commitment and published Understanding the […]
NHS England has developed some bite-size guides to support patient and public participation in the NHS. These guides are linked to the Transforming participation in Health and Social Care guidance (published September 2013). The guides have been developed with partners and by reviewing good practice in each area. They aim to support Clinical Commissioning Groups […]