We are inviting patients, NHS staff, partner organisations and interested members of the public to give us your views on proposals for a new NHS Provider Selection Regime, which sets out how decisions about who should provide health care services are made in future.
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Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Adult Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Questionnaire and thank you for engaging and supporting us.
The scope of Adult Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery is broad. Therefore, to make this questionnaire relevant -...More
Licence condition G4 applies to all licensees and, by way of directions, NHS trusts, and requires that they ensure governors and directors meet appropriate standards of personal behaviours, technical competence and business practice. The objective is to prevent unfit persons from holding office...More
The Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Bulletin has been running since the start of the pandemic, and is now circulated every two weeks to a large audience of providers and stakeholders.
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NHS England and NHS Improvement have prepared proposals for a new approach to NHS system oversight.
The proposed approach aligns with the vision set out for Integrated Care Systems (ICS) in Integrating Care and in the Government’s White Paper, Integration and Innovation: working together...More
Thank you for taking the time to consider NHS Improvement and NHS England’s proposals for the 2021/22 national tariff.
The full consultation notice and all supporting material can be found here: www.england.nhs.uk/publication/2021-22-tariff-consultation/
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Dear colleagues,
We are seeking insight from the MDSO network on how widespread the use of wall air flowmeters are in NHS organisations and organisations providing NHS-funded care. We would be grateful for your response to this brief survey.
There are a maximum of 3 questions...More
The national patient safety team are seeking the support of the National Response Advisory Panel to issue a national patient safety alert on the subject of ' Urgent assessment and treatment following the ingestion of magnets in children and young people'.
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In 2017 to 2018, your engagement with the GIRFT process was vital to enable us to identify the challenges we face delivering ophthalmology services, potential areas of unwarranted variation and examples of innovative and great practice. The GIRFT ophthalmology team would like to invite you to...More
COVID-19 has highlighted the lack of collective understanding of how we use our AHP clinical support workforce to enable delivery of high-quality care. Demands on services continue to increase and we now understand the challenges in matching future demand to capacity. It is imperative we...More
NHS England has launched a 30 day consultation on a clinical policy for the use of proton beam therapy for breast cancer, which proposes that this is not routinely commissioned at this time.
A final decision will made by NHS England and NHS Improvement following a recommendation from the...More
Mental health provision for young people in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is part way through a pilot project which is seeing more young people with mental illness being treated and cared for in the community rather than in a hospital environment. ...More
The NHS Standard Contract is published by NHS England and is mandated, under Standing Rules regulations, for use by NHS commissioners to contract for all healthcare services other than primary care services.
The Contract is published in two generic versions – the full-length version, which...More
Acute, mental health and community sector survey.
This survey is part of the review and feedback exercise of the Approved Costing Guidance. It gives all stakeholders the opportunity to express their thoughts on the proposed standards with regard to their practicality, achievability and...More
We are asking patients, NHS staff, partner organisations and interested members of the public to give us views on proposals set out in the document Integrated Care: next steps to build strong and effective integrated care systems across England , which details our vision for a more...More
You recently used a new National Health Service (NHS) service where you had a consultation with a pharmacist in a local pharmacy after you had contacted your GP surgery, and we would like feedback about your experiences of using the service.
The survey should take 2 minutes to complete. The...More
The NHS Standard Contract is published by NHS England and is mandated, under Standing Rules regulations, for use by NHS commissioners to contract for all healthcare services other than primary care services.
NHS England is now consulting on significant changes to the Contract, to take...More
NHS England and NHS Improvement are seeking your help to understand how we can protect frontline staff from growing instances of COVID-19 infection within hospitals.
We recognise the huge effort staff have made to uphold COVID-19 control measures and want to explore how we can better support...More
The GIRFT elective care team want to ensure that this programme makes a worthwhile contribution. To help with this, we are contacting members that took part in the GIRFT Urology Gateway Review meeting for feedback.
Please take a few moments to complete this follow up...More
NHS England and NHS Improvement South East, together with CCGs in Hampshire and the Isle fo Wight, will be commissioning new translation and interpreting services for primary care providers to call upon when consulting with their patients. These services, which are fully funded by the...More
We would like to hear your views on community language interpreting services when you are at an appointment using NHS dental, pharmacy and optometry services in the South East (including Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West and Buckinghamshire) and the Isle of Wight. We...More
We would like to hear your views on community language interpreting services when you are at an appointment using NHS dental, pharmacy and optometry services in the South East (including Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire West and Buckinghamshire) and the Isle of Wight. We...More
The proposed changes to medicines legislation and the findings of the consultation will be presented to the Commission on Human Medicines, who make recommendations to Ministers regarding changes to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. Subject to the agreement to the proposed changes by...More
The proposed changes to medicines legislation and the findings of the consultation will be presented to the Commission on Human Medicines, who make recommendations to Ministers regarding changes to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. Subject to the agreement to the proposed changes by...More
This UK-wide consultation is being led by NHS England on behalf of the four nations and relates to proposed amendments to legislation to enable clinical scientists to use patient group directions (PGDs) to supply and administer medicines to their patients.
PGDs are written instructions for...More
This UK-wide consultation is being led by NHS England on behalf of the four nations and relates to proposed amendments to medicine legislation to enable dental hygienists and dental therapists to supply and administer particular medicines directly to their patients under exemptions within the...More
The proposed changes to medicines legislation and the findings of the consultation will be presented to the Commission on Human Medicines, who make recommendations to Ministers regarding changes to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. Subject to the agreement to the proposed changes by...More
This UK-wide consultation is being led by NHS England on behalf of the four nations and relates to proposed amendments to legislation to enable operating department practitioners to use patient group directions (PGDs) to supply and administer medicines to their patients.
PGDs are written...More
This UK-wide consultation is being led by NHS England on behalf of the four nations and relates to proposed amendments to legislation to enable biomedical scientists to use patient group directions (PGDs) to supply and administer medicines to their patients.
PGDs are written instructions...More