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More on Barriers to Effective Whistleblowing (BBC News / Patients First / Health Select Committee)
Summary Whistleblowers who “speak out” about their concerns concerning care standards in the health service may still face obstacles, problems and intimidation, despite recent progress in the creation of a more open and transparent NHS culture. Patients First has submitted … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Ann Clwyd MP, BBC Health News, Behaviours to Enable Whistleblowing, Cathy James: Chief Executive of Public Concern, Closed Ranks Culture (Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry), Clwyd and Hart Review Into Hospital Complaints, Complaint Advocacy Services, Complaint Handling, Complaint Handling by Providers, Complaint Handling in Social Care, Complaints and Raising Concerns, Complaints Handling in Primary Care, Complaints Matter, Complaints Programme Board (CPB), Complaints Wales, Culture, Culture Change, Defensive Leadership, Duty of Candour, Failure to Act, Fear of Raising Concerns About Care, Francis Inquiry, Francis Inquiry Report, Francis Report, Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up (Francis Review Whistleblowing), Freedom To Speak Up Review (Sir Robert Francis QC), Freedom to Speak Up? (Whistleblowing Review), Gagging Orders, General Medical Council (GMC), Handling of Complaints by Commissioners, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Hard Truths, Health Select Committee (HSC), Health Service Ombudsman, Healthwatch and Public Involvement Association (HAPIA), Healthwatch England: Power to Act as Supercomplainant on Behalf of Consumers, Honesty, House of Commons Health Committee, House of Commons Health Committee Report on Complaints and Raising Concerns, House of Commons Health Select Committee, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Incident Reporting, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Local Ward Cultures, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Mistreatment of Whistleblowers, Negative Culture, NHS Constitution, NHS Constitution and Whistleblowing, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Culture, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, No Wrong Door Policy, Nurse Helene Donnelly, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Raising Concerns, Open and Honest Incident Reporting, Open Culture, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, PALS and NHS Complaints Advocacy Arrangements, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), Patients First (Support Organisation), Patients First and Foremost, Positive Culture, Principles of Good Complaint Handling, Professional Regulators and Complaints, Professor Sir Mike Richards: Former Chief Inspector of Hospitals (CQC), Programme to Identify Whistleblowers Who Have Suffered Detriment, Proposal for Single Complaints Gateway for Health and Social Care, Proposal for Single Health and Social Care Ombudsman for England, Public Administration Select Committee (PASC), Public Concern at Work, Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA), Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Putting Patients First, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns Policy, Raising Standards, Relatives and Residents Association, Reluctance to Raise Concerns About Care, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Role of Commissioners in Complaints, Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Shaping Culture, Sir Robert Francis QC, Staff Awareness, Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust, Statutory Duty of Candour, Structures to Enable Whistleblowing, Supercomplainant on Behalf of Consumers, Systems to Support Whistleblowing, Treatment of Staff Raising Concerns, Trust Blame and the Culture of Defensiveness, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Whistleblowing, Whistleblowing Guidance, Whistleblowing Helpline, Whistleblowing in the NHS, Whistleblowing in the Public Sector
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Consultation on the Protection of Personal Health and Care Data (Department of Health)
Summary The Department of Health has published a consultation document on proposals to strengthen controls and safeguards on the use of health and care data. The aim is to reassure people that their personal data will not be not open … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accredited Safe Havens, Accredited Safe Havens (ASHs), Advisory Group for the care.data Programme, Anonymised Patient Medical Records, Anonymising Data, ASH: Accredited Safe Haven, Caldicott Principles, Caldicott Review of Information Governance, Caldicott Standards, care.data, care.data Advisory Group, Care.data: Modern Data Service for the NHS, Case Management, Commissioning Organisations, Confidentiality, Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG), Controlling the Release of Data, Dame Fiona Caldicott: Chair of the Independent Information Governance Oversight Panel (IIGOP), Data Extraction, Data Protection Act, Data Release Review (PwC), Data Sharing Review, Department of Health Arm’s Length Bodies, Department of Health's Information Strategy, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Electronic Medical Records, Fair Processing, Francis Inquiry Report, Future Forum, General Practice Extraction Service (GPES), General Practice [Data] Extraction Service, Government’s Information Strategy, Government’s Life Sciences Strategy, Health and Care Data, Health and Social Care Information Centre, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Information Governance Review, Information Governance Reviews, Information Governance Toolkit Controls, Information Sharing, Information Strategy, Legal Basis for Data Extraction, Local Authorities, Modern Medicine, NHS Constitution, NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (IC), Opt Out Procedures, Opting Out, Opting Out (care.data), Patient Confidentiality, Patient Identifiable Data, Patient Representative Groups, Personal Confidential Data, Protection of Personal Health and Care Data, Pseudonymised Data, Public Confidence, Register of Approved Data Releases, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), Secure Safe Havens, Winterbourne View
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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
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged 5 Live Investigates (BBC Radio 5), Arm’s Length Bodies, Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Armed Forces Healthcare, BBC 5 Live, BBC 5 Live ‘In Short’ Series, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio 5 Live Investigates, Better Training Better Care, Care Quality Commission (CQC), CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Senate Assembly or Forum, Clinical Senate Council, Clinical Senates, Clinically-Led Commissioning, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Commissioning NHS Services, Commissioning Organisations, Commissioning Support Units, Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), Community Services, Compassion, Compassion in Care, Compassionate Care, Concise NHS Handbook, Culture of Compassionate Care, Differences Between NHS Foundation and NHS Trusts, Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Engagement, Everyone Counts, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM), Finance, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financing of Health Care, General Dental Council (GDC), General Medical Council (GMC), General Optical Council (GOC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Education England, Healthwatch England, Healthwatch Local, HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Improving Lives, Improving Public Health, Leadership Development, Local Authorities, Local Education and Training Boards, Local Education Providers, Local Public Health Services, Locally Commissioned Services, Market Competition, Mental Health Services, Money Flows in the NHS, Monitor, Monitoring and Regulation, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellows 2013/14, Nationally Commissioned Services, New Structures, NHS Budget, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Constitution, NHS Finance, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHS Improving Quality, NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS in Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland, NHS Leadership Academy, NHS Money Flows, NHS Outcomes Framework, NHS Outcomes Framework Domains, NHS Structures, NHS Values, NHS Values and the Constitution, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Offender Healthcare, Patient Involvement, Payment by Results (PbR), Performance Incentives (CQUINs QOFs and Quality Premiums), PHE: Public Health England, Primary Care, Process and Structures, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Public and Patient Involvement, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Quality of Care, Quality Premium, Rehabilitation Services, Resource Challenges, Respect, Secondary Care, Service Redesign, Societal Challenges, Specialised Services, Staff Engagement, Strategic Clinical Networks, Transactional Commissioning, Transformational Commissioning, Trust Development Authority, Working Together for Change
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NHS Choice Framework (Department of Health)
Summary The NHS Choice Framework explains patients’ rights to choice about their health care, how to access information to help making choices, and how to complain if not offered any choice. The Choice Framework is to be updated annually. The … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Department of Health, Mental Health, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 2014/15 Choice Framework, Advice and Information, Autonomy and Choice, Choice, Choice Framework, Choosing a GP and GP Practice, Direct Payments, Information About Services, Information and Advice Services, Informed Choice, Involvement and Participation, NHS Choice Framework, NHS Constitution, NHS Continuing Healthcare, Participation in Research, Patient Choice, Patient Choice Framework, Patient Engagement, Patient Involvement, Patient Involvement in Research, Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Personalisation and Choice of Care and Support, Third Party Budgets, Travel to Another European Country for Treatment
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