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  • Application form: Patient and Public Voice roles in Public Participation and Seven Day GP Access

    Application form: NHS England Patient and Public Participation – Oversight Group, NHS England, Seven Day GP Access Programme Board. NHS England is committed to ensuring that public and patient voices are at the centre of shaping our healthcare services. Every level of our commissioning system needs to be informed by insightful methods of listening to those who use and care about our services to inform service development. There are a range of opportunities for the public, patients,... More
    Closed 21 December 2015

  • Quality of Partnerships with NHS England

    This survey forms part of the new NHS England partnership approach. We are consulting our partners to ensure the approach is creating a positive impact and to test where things are working well and where we can improve. In developing our approach we have already taken account of what you told us in the previous survey. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey, it will help strengthen how we work with you and other partners. More
    Closed 2 December 2015

  • Maternity Review Consultation: For those who experienced complications or bereavement

    This survey is specifically for two groups of people: First, those whose baby died during pregnancy (including miscarriage), labour or soon after birth. And second, for families who experienced pregnancy complications affecting the health of mother or baby and /or neonatal admission after birth. Further information This is a survey about the care provided through pregnancy, birth and after birth and forms part of the NHS Maternity Review online... More
    Closed 30 November 2015

  • NHS Maternity Review

    The NHS Maternity Review is currently underway to make recommendations for the improvement of services for women and their families. We are very keen to hear from women, fathers, partners, their families and advocates, professionals, commissioners and people from representative organisations. All your comments and answers will be treated anonymously and the information provided will directly contribute to the review. We are committed to ensuring that anyone who wishes to share their... More
    Closed 15 November 2015

  • VCSE Review: Discussion paper on the challenges and solutions to better investment in and partnership with the VCSE sector

    The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector is crucial to the sustainable delivery of health and wellbeing. VCSE organisations are an integral part of the wider health and care system, and they operate extensively within it. Just under a quarter of England’s 171,000 voluntary and community organisations are involved in the provision of adult health and/or social care and support services.[1] Around a third of social enterprises operate in health and social care.[2] The... More
    Closed 11 November 2015

  • VCSE Review: Discussion Paper on the Voluntary Sector Investment Programme

    As important partners in addressing health inequalities and improving health and well-being outcomes, the Department of Health, Public Health England, and NHS England are committed to working in partnership and investing in the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector to achieve the greatest impact for all communities in England. In November 2014, the Department of Health, Public Health England, and NHS England (the ‘system partners’) initiated a review of their... More
    Closed 11 November 2015

  • Draft NHS England Patient & Public Participation Policy and Draft Statement of Arrangements and Guidance for Involving the Public in Commissioning

    NHS England’s ambition is for patients and the public to be at the heart of everything we do, in line with the values of the NHS Constitution. In September 2013 Transforming Participation in Health and Care was published as statutory guidance in the form of an interactive resource for NHS England and clinical commissioning groups. We have subsequently introduced a range of initiatives to underpin our commitment to patient and public participation. However, we need to go... More
    Closed 30 October 2015

  • Mental Health & Smoking Cessation

    The Respiratory SCN, Mental Health SCN and Public Health England ran an audit in June 2014 to explore how we can help Mental Health Services and their users improve access to smoking cessation services. It helped us tremendously to understand what work had gone on in the region already and how we could support localities. Since then a lot has gone on in this arena and we are keen to hear your progress. Please help us by completing this brief questionnaire again for the period 14/15. Thank... More
    Closed 28 October 2015

  • Proposed revision to service specification for stereotactic radiosurgery/stereotactic radiotherapy

    NHS England - in partnership with clinicians, and in response to feedback received during a previous consultation - has developed a new service model for the delivery of stereotactic radiosurgery/stereotactic radiotherapy in England. In order to implement this model, we will need to make changes to the current published service specification. The proposed changes to the specification will enable the development of high quality, efficient, safe and accessible services across the country. More
    Closed 13 October 2015

  • Broadmayne Surgery Patient Survey

    NHS England (South) is seeking the views of patients to help shape the future local medical services in Broadmayne. More
    Closed 29 September 2015

  • Our Vision: Towards a new strategy for Nursing, Midwifery & Care Staff August 2015

    The future for Nursing, Midwifery and Care Staff is at an exciting point in time as we come to the end of Compassion in Practice in March 2016. We now have the opportunity to develop a follow-on strategy that provides us with a greater voice as well as harnesses and strengthens the collective clinical contribution to ensure we continue to deliver the best possible health and care for people in England now and in the decades to come. We have given this strategy the working title of ‘Our... More
    Closed 28 September 2015

  • Consultation Guide: National Procurement for the Provision of Behavioural Interventions for People with Non-Diabetic Hyperglycaemia

    Please note that this consultation will be open: Until 7 September for potential providers of the new service Until 18 September for local health economies and other stakeholders The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme has launched a prospectus for providers, local health economies and others interested in the new service. This engagement will allow them to contribute to the proposals set out in the Consultation Guide . A shorter document for members of the... More
    Closed 18 September 2015

  • Draft Service Model for people with learning disabilities/autism

    Overview The cross-system Transforming Care programme aims to improve care for people with learning disabilities and/ or autism who have a mental health condition or display behaviour that challenges. As part of this work, NHS England, the Local Government Association and the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services have developed a draft Service Model for commissioners across health and care, that describes what good services look like. The Model will ensure some national... More
    Closed 4 September 2015

  • Aligning the Publication of Performance Data

    NHS England is seeking comments and views from data producers and users on the process for aligning the publication of performance statistics. Following Bruce Keogh’s clinical review we are making the following changes to the publication of performance data. We are moving to a single monthly publication of the data. The first publication of this data will take place on 13 August 2015. However we will be working to improve the publication process on the basis of responses to the... More
    Closed 1 September 2015

  • Survey on GP services at Millbrook and Lodge House Surgeries

    NHS England is looking at the long-term future of GP services for people currently registered with Millbrook and Lodge House Surgeries, near Plymouth. While a temporary agreement is in place to secure continuity of care for patients for the immediate future, following Dr Scaglioni’s decision to stand down, this survey is about the potential shape of services from July 2016. Please answer as many questions as you can, as the more information we can collect, the better our... More
    Closed 4 August 2015

  • GP services in the North Tawton area

    NHS England aims to put in place a long-term contract for GP services in the North Tawton area of Devon from April 2016. This survey will be used to help shape those services. Please answer as many questions as you can, as the more information we can collect, the better our understanding of what is needed. For that reason, the survey is also open to people in the area who are not patients at North Tawton Surgery. More
    Closed 30 June 2015

  • Specialised services – Consultation on children's epilepsy surgery specification

    NHS England has today (26 March 2015) launched a public consultation on proposed changes to its service specification for children’s epilepsy surgery services. This specification was first adopted in May 2013. Consultation will last for three months, between March 26 and 18 June 2015. An accompanying consultation guide has been produced, containing additional information about the rationale behind the proposed changes, and is intended to help those with an interest in these services to make... More
    Closed 18 June 2015

  • Annual imaging and radiodiagnostics statistics consultation

    Publications Gateway Reference - 01382 NHS England currently publishes, on an annual basis, National Statistics on NHS Imaging and Radiodiagnostics in England. However, NHS England now publishes monthly detailed information about diagnostic imaging tests from the diagnostic imaging dataset (DID). This information has been routinely published since April 2012. Now that this new data set is routinely published and the quality of the data has improved, the annual data could be viewed as a... More
    Closed 12 June 2015

  • Proposals to introduce independent prescribing by radiographers across the United Kingdom

    In recent years, the NHS has allowed a wider range of allied health professions (AHPs) to prescribe or supply and administer medicines to patients. This is because for many patients an AHP is their lead clinician, yet they often do not have access to the appropriate prescribing or supply and administration of medicines mechanisms. Introducing these changes makes it easier for patients to get access to the medicines that they need in a timely manner so they gain maximum benefit. The... More
    Closed 27 May 2015

  • Proposals to introduce independent prescribing by paramedics across the United Kingdom

    In recent years, the NHS has allowed a wider range of allied health professions (AHPs) to prescribe or supply and administer medicines to patients. This is because for many patients an AHP is their lead clinician, yet they often do not have access to the appropriate prescribing or supply and administration of medicines mechanisms. Introducing these changes makes it easier for patients to get access to the medicines that they need in a timely manner so they gain maximum benefit. The... More
    Closed 27 May 2015

  • Proposals to introduce supplementary prescribing by dietitians across the United Kingdom

    In recent years, the NHS has allowed a wider range of allied health professions (AHPs) to prescribe or supply and administer medicines to patients. This is because for many patients an AHP is their lead clinician, yet they often do not have access to the appropriate prescribing or supply and administration of medicines mechanisms. Introducing these changes makes it easier for patients to get access to the medicines that they need in a timely manner so they gain maximum benefit. The... More
    Closed 1 May 2015

  • Proposals to allow orthoptists to sell, supply and administer medicines under exemptions within the Human Medicines Regulations (2012) across the United Kingdom

    In recent years, the NHS has allowed a wider range of allied health professions (AHPs) to supply or administer medicines to patients. This is because for many patients an AHP is their lead clinician, yet they often do not have access to the appropriate supply and administration of medicines mechanisms. Introducing these changes makes it easier for patients to get access to the medicines that they need in a timely manner so they gain maximum benefit. The NHS is now consulting on... More
    Closed 1 May 2015

  • Specialised Services - Policy and Specification Consultation

    NHS England has today (30 January 2015) launched a three month public consultation on proposed changes to a number of new and existing service specifications and clinical commissioning policies for specialised services.There has already been extensive engagement on these national specifications and policies, as they have been developed with the support and input of lead clinicians and patient and public representatives. This approach has helped ensure that the views of key stakeholders have... More
    Closed 30 April 2015

  • Clinicians' views on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

    NHS England wants to understand the opinion of clinicians in England on the place of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) as an adjunctive treatment in your NHS practice. Whatever your opinion on the role of HBOT in your area of clinical practice, please tell us in order that the information we collect represents any divergence within your specialty as faithfully as possible. The survey will take about 5 minutes to complete and is anonymous. More
    Closed 29 April 2015

  • Investing in specialised commissioning - public consultation

    NHS England is consulting on a proposed set of principles which will underpin the future decision making process for investment in specialised services. The consultation document also outlines the characteristics of the process NHS England will use to make these decisions. More
    Closed 27 April 2015

  • Specialised Services - Policy and Specification Consultation March 2015

    NHS England has today (24 March 2015) launched a 30 day public consultation on a proposed number of new products for specialised services, (including service specifications and clinical commissioning policies). There has already been extensive engagement on these national specifications and policies, as they have been developed with the support and input of lead clinicians and patient and public representatives. This approach has helped ensure that the views of key stakeholders have informed... More
    Closed 23 April 2015

  • Improving the Quality of Interpreting and Translation Services (ITS) in Primary Care

    Publications Gateway Reference: 03240 NHS England is reviewing how patients who are Deaf or do not speak English as a first language use interpreting services so they can access the best care and information. To achieve this, we have engaged with Service Users, Patients, Interpreters, Service Providers, Professionals and Clinicians so we can articulate what a high quality service looks like. More
    Closed 20 April 2015

  • Genomic Laboratory Service Re-design

    NHS England is consulting on proposed changes to the way in which Genetic Laboratory services are commissioned More
    Closed 14 April 2015

  • Seasonal Flu Vaccination Service Patient Questionnaire 2014/15

    You recently had your seasonal flu vaccination and we would like to know your opinion of the service. The following questionnaire should take no more than 5 minutes to complete and will help inform our planning for 2015/16 flu season. Thank you for your contribution. More
    Closed 31 March 2015

  • Refreshing the Accountability and Assurance Framework for Safeguarding

    Publications Gateway Ref: 2767 Safeguarding in the NHS - Accountability and Assurance Framework will update and replace Safeguarding Vulnerable People in the Reformed NHS – Accountability and Assurance Framework which described the roles and responsibilities of NHS England, Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS providers and various other bodies in the reformed health system. The wider context for safeguarding continues to change in response to the findings of large scale inquiries,... More
    Closed 26 March 2015
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