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Personal Health Budgets Learning Network - NHS operating framework
2012/13
The new
NHS operating framework setting out the business and planning
arrangements for the NHS in England for the next year has been
published, and includes personal health budgets.
Joint
Strategic Needs Assessment and joint health and wellbeing
strategies explained
A report to support emerging health and wellbeing boards as
they engage with the refresh of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
and develop their preparatory joint health and wellbeing
strategy.
New institute to
help narrow the health gap
A new University College
London Institute that aims to reduce health inequalities through
action on the social determinants was launched by the Health
Secretary Andrew Lansley and Professor Sir Michael Marmot. The
UCL
Institute of Health Equity will receive £1 million funding from
the Department of Health over the next three years to take forward
action that will reduce health inequalities in England.
Report
from the Forensic & Challenging Behaviour Product Review Sub
Group
A
new report summarises the work undertaken by the Forensic and
Challenging Behaviour Product Review Sub Group over the past twelve
months. It builds upon two strands of work, the first being the
development of a clinically derived set of descriptors piloted by a
group of London Medium Secure Units and the second being a
modification of the Mental Health Clustering Tool (MHCT) and the 21
Clusters mandated for use in Working Aged Adult and Older Peoples
services, piloted by two Trusts in the North East of England.
Health
Research Authority
The Health Research
Authority has started as the new regulator of health research.
Its central purpose is to protect and promote the interests of
patients and the public in health research. It will work with a
range of stakeholders to combine and streamline the current
approval process and promote proportionate standards for compliance
and inspection.
60 new outcomes
targets for NHS
New targets have been created to
measure the quality of care delivered by the NHS in England,
centring on patient experience and feedback and how staff respond
to patient needs. The
60 targets are
grouped into the following sections of care: premature death;
quality of life for people with long-term conditions; helping
people recover after ill-health or injury; patient experience; and
treating people safely. Let us know what
you think.
NHS publish latest
version of Mental Health Minimum Dataset
The
fifth annual report on NHS adult specialist mental health services
in England covers the most recent information for 2010/11 and
looks at hospital care and services delivered in the community.
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