| Transforming Community Services: the assurance and approvals process for PCT-provided community services |
| The NHS Operating Framework 2010/11 set a requirement for proposals for future forms of PCT-provided community services to be agreed with SHAs by 31 March 2010. Building on Transforming community services: enabling new patterns of provision, further guidance has been... |
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| National survey on the use of external support for commissioning |
| The King's Fund would like to invite you to contribute to a national survey on the subject of PCTs' use of external support for commissioning. This research is aimed at informing and influencing the World Class Commissioning policy by developing... |
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| Consultation on assessments of quality 2010/11 |
| This consultation details how we propose to assess the quality of: councils as commissioners; PCTs as commissioners; NHS trusts and PCTs as providers; and adult social care organisations as providers. It also outlines plans for the Care Quality Commission will... |
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| Delivering better care at end of life |
| This report includes papers given at the Sir Roger Bannister Summit, arranged for those responsible for implementing the government’s End Of Life Care Strategy. It covers issues including commissioning, hospice and hospital care, quality markers, challenges for providers, and an... |
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| PbR data assurance framework: findings from the accident and emergency pilots |
| The Audit Commission reviewed accident and emergency (A&E) data for Payment by Results (PbR) purposes in eight acute trusts to see if they should extend the PbR data assurance framework to cover A&E activity. This briefing sets out the findings... |
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| Final report of the Expert Group on Commissioning NHS Infertility Provision |
| This is the final report of the independent expert group on commissioning NHS infertility provision. The key points include: · the development of a national tariff for regulated fertility services · a project to share information on local prices and... |
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| Engaging and responding to communities: a brief guide to Local Involvement Networks |
| Local Involvement Networks (LINks) exist in every local authority area of England to give people more influence over how their local health and social care services are planned and delivered. This guide is for health and social care managers and... |
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| Standards for the management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) |
| These standards provide a framework for monitoring performance which covers the core principles of STI care, staff training, clinical assessment and management, diagnostics, information governance, links to other services, clinical governance and the engagement of patients and the public. (British... |
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| Delivering same-sex accommodation in mental health and learning disability services |
| This briefing summarises existing national policy and good practice on same-sex accommodation, explains what support is available to organisations that need to make improvements, and sets out what both providers and commissioners can do to ensure same-sex accommodation becomes a... |
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| Getting the measure of quality: opportunities and challenges |
| This report offers information about how quality is defined and how quality measures can be used or misused. It sets out the main debates and choices faced by those involved in measuring and using data on quality and outlines some... |
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