For full details of the learning and support offer available for colleagues working with people and communities, please visit Start with People Future NHS page where there is access to a range of resources, tools and learning opportunities. There is also a supplementary offer for those people working with or in a Primary Care Network […]
Distribution of funding A total fund of £45 million is available over the next five years (2016/17 – 2020/21) to go towards the costs of training and backfill for reception and clerical staff. It will be allocated via CCGs each year. Over the full five years, nearly 80 pence per patient will be allocated, on […]
Standard contract documentation NHS England has commissioned new standard primary medical care contracts in order to make sure that there is a consistent contractual framework in place across the country. These new standard contracts also introduce the new core contract terms that were agreed as part of the 2013/14 GP contract agreement. These new forms […]
Prescribed Specialised Services (PSS) CQUIN Guide PSS CQUIN Guidance PSS CQUIN Schemes – Single document (Print friendly) PSS CQUIN Schemes PSS CQUIN Schemes – Individual documents with supporting files BI1 Improving HCV treatment pathways through ODNs BI2 Haemtrack BI3 Automated Exchange Transfusion for Sickle Cell Care BI4 Improving Haemoglobinopathy Pathways through ODN Networks CA.1_IM1 Enhanced […]
This has been prepared to support applicable and interested organisations to effectively assess, monitor and / or assure their own, and others’, implementation of and ongoing conformance with SCCI1605 Accessible Information – referred to as ‘the Accessible Information Standard’ or ‘the Standard’. ‘Applicable organisations’ are those to which the Standard applies (i.e. with specific requirements […]
Factsheets and clarifying notes Clarifying notes The content of previously published ‘clarifying notes’ is included in the revised (v1.1) version of the Implementation Guidance for the Standard. Factsheets Identifying information and communication needs Recording information and communication needs Flagging information and communication needs Sharing information and communication needs Meeting information and communication needs Top Implementation […]
The Care.Data Programme closed in 2016 The suggestion by Sky News that it would be ‘easy’ to uniquely identify any one person through the data collected for care.data is incorrect. Patient data security is a top priority for the NHS and is taken extremely seriously. The likelihood of being able to identify an individual is negligible: GP records, […]
This glossary has been produced to bring together terms and definitions in general use. Wherever possible, definitions have been taken from key stakeholder guidance documents and relevant sources have been included. This glossary is intended as a guide for those involved in responding to concerns teams to help build consistency in the use of regular […]
The Care.Data Programme closed in 2016 Since this blog was published, certain details have now been superseded (for example, the safeguards for pseudonymous data have been strengthened). Please read the more recent care.data blogs for further details. Dr Geraint Lewis, NHS England’s Chief Data Officer, explains why patients can be confident in agreeing to allow […]
Since this news item published, certain details have now been superseded. Please see the care.data page for the most recent and up to date information. Leaflets explaining how the NHS uses patient information will begin landing on the doormats of England’s 26.5 million households from today. Over the next four weeks, every household in England […]