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Tag Archives: Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health’s ALBs)
Reviewing the Current – and Likely Future – State of the NHS (NAO / Dods)
Summary The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a “Short Guide to the Department of Health” as one of their collection of short guides about different government departments. This guide includes a wealth of statistical information in summary form, concerning … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Mental Health, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Access to Mental Health Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency, Accident and Emergency Attendances, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care for People with Complex Needs, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Avoidable Mortality, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Performance Indicators, Bed Days, Bed Occupancy, Better Care Fund (BCF), Cancelled Elective Operations, Cancelled Operations: NHS Performance Indicators, Care Act 2014, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Performance Indicators, Delayed Transfers of Care: NHS Statistical Trends, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Diagnostic Waiting Times, Diagnostics Waiting Times And Activity, Dods Research, Dr Martin McShane: NHS England’s Director for People With Long Term Conditions, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap (NHS), General Hospitals, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Health and Social Care Integration, HEE: Health Education England, Hospital Activity and Capacity, Hospital Emergency Departments, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Waiting Times, HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Human Tissue Authority, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Key Performance Indicators, Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), Low Morale, Mandate from the Government to NHS England, Market Oversight, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Monitor, National Audit Office (NAO), National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health Care Excellence, New Architecture of the NHS, New Models of Care, New Models of Service, NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Health Research Authority, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Reform, NHS Services, NHS Sustainability, NHS TDA: NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Waiting Times, Obesity, Obesity and Diabetes, Obesity Epidemic, Obesity in the UK, Obesity is the New Smoking, Obesity Risk Factor, Obesity the New Smoking, Obesity Time-Bomb, Organisational Challenges, Oversight and Monitoring, Performance Statistics, PHE: Public Health England, Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL), Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Funding, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Regulation, Seven-Day Consultant-Delivered Care, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Working, Short Guide to Department of Health (NAO), Social Care Funding, Special Measures, Standardised Years of Life Lost (SYLL), Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention, UK NHS Performance, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Waiting Times and Access Standards, Waiting Times for Cancer Services, Waiting Times for Diagnostic Tests, Waiting Times for Referral to Treatment for Consultant-Led Elective Care
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Interim “Big Picture” Review of Progress and Developments in the NHS (Department of Health)
Summary This document provides a brief summary of progress made against the Department of Health’s objectives, financial performance, people and major projects (in the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio) between April and September 2014. Full Text Link Reference Mid-year report 2014-15: … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Adult Social Care, Arm’s Length Bodies, Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Better Care Fund (BCF), Care Act 2014, Caring Better, Challenge on Dementia, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Dementia Research, Department of Health Arm’s Length Bodies, Department of Health's Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs), Department of Health's Mid-Year Report 2014-15, Early Diagnosis, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Reform, Improving Treatment and Care of People With Dementia, Integration of Health and Social Care, Living and Ageing Well, Local Government and Care Partnerships), Mid-Year Report 2014-15: Department of Health, NIHR National Director for Dementia Research, PHE: Public Health England, Primary Care’s Role in Early Diagnosis, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Professor Martin Rossor: NIHR National Director for Dementia Research, Public Health England (PHE), Social Care Reform, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), TLAP: Think Local Act Personal, UK Government’s Major Projects Portfolio, World Dementia Council
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The Big Picture: Department of Health Corporate Plan 2014-15 (Department of Health)
Summary This Department of Health Corporate Plan discusses the priorities for the year, focusing on how strategic objectives will be delivered. Section headings in this report comprise: About the Department of Health: The Department in 2014-2015 – Summary. Chapter 1: … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, NIHR, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Ageing Well, Arm’s Length Bodies, Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Avoidable Premature Mortality, Care of People with Dementia: Quality Standard, Care Outside Hospital, Caring Better, Coordination of Care, Dementia Friends Campaign, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Department of Health Corporate Plan, Department of Health Corporate Plan 2014-15, Department of Health Leadership Team, Department of Health Ministers, Department of Health Non-Executive Board Members, Department of Health's Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs), DH Corporate Plan 2014-2015, Health and Care System Facts (UK), Health and Social Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Living and Ageing Well, Premature Death, Premature Mortality, Productivity, Quality of Care, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Social Care Reform, Standards of Care, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Transforming Care Outside Hospital, Value for Money (VfM)
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Brief Guide to the New NHS (NHS England)
Summary This updated guide, from NHS England, clarifies the structure and function of the NHS, reflecting changes from the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Topic headings include: Introduction The NHS belongs to us all. Foreword (Sir Bruce Keogh). NHS … Continue reading
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Department of Health’s Corporate Plan for 2013-14 (Department of Health)
Summary The annual Department of Health corporate plan defines priorities for the year ahead, and explains how the department will deliver the Secretary of State’s strategic objectives. The main section headings in the corporate plan for 2013-14 point to information … Continue reading
Posted in Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Mental Health, National, NHS, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Academic Health Science Centres, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF), Anna Soubry MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health), Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Caldicott Review of Information Governance, Care and Compassion, Care Partnerships, Chief Medical Officer: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Clinical Trials Gateway, Compassionate Care, Corporate Plan (Department of Health), Dementia Pilot Schemes and Funding Allocations, Department of Health Purpose, Department of Health Responsibilities, Department of Health Values: People - Purpose - Working Together - Accountability, Department of Health Vision, Department of Health's Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs), Department of Health’s Corporate Plan 2013-14, Dignity and Respect, Dr Daniel Poulter MP (Former Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health), Earl Howe: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Quality (Lords), Felicity Harvey (Director General: Public Health), Finance, Financial Issues, First Mental Health Dashboard, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Health and Wellbeing, Health Education England, Health Protection, Healthwatch, Jon Rouse (Director General: Social Care Local Government and Care Partnerships), Leadership by Patients, Local Clinical Research Networks, Local Government, Local Government and Care Partnerships), Mental Health Act Approvals Panels, NHS Reform, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NIHR Clinical Research Network, NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Norman Lamb (Former Care Minister), Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Partnership, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient and Public Voice, Patient Choice Framework, Patient-Centred Leadership, Patient-Led Assessment of Care Environment (PLACE), Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia: Annual Report (2013), Productivity, Public Health, Research and Development, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Social Care, Transparency and Accountability, UK Clinical Trials Gateway (UKCTG), Value Based Recruitment, Value for Money
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Department of Health’s Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) 2013/14 (Department of Health)
Summary Summary information about the Department of Health’s arm’s length bodies (ALBs) is supplied, including: The role of each organisation. Achievements in 2012 to 2013 (where applicable). Business priorities for 2013 to 2014. This online report includes sections on: NHS England. Monitor. … Continue reading
Posted in CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, Health Education England (HEE), National, NHS, NHS Employers, NHS England, NICE Guidelines, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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