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Reviewing the Current – and Likely Future – State of the NHS (NAO / Dods)

Posted on September 5, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 →

NHS Reform Under the Coalition Government (King’s Fund / BBC News)

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Chris Ham, Chief Executive of the King’s Fund, has released an authoritative and thorough review of major reform and re-organisation within the NHS during the first three years of the coalition government. “He was agin’ it”. Mark Twain. Full … Continue reading →

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Updated Guidance on Complying With Monitor’s Integrated Care License Requirements (Monitor / Department of Health)

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Monitor has updated guidance and background information to help healthcare service providers, commissioners of services, and health and wellbeing boards, to comply with specified integrated care license obligations. Content headings comprise: General. Licensed providers. Unlicensed providers. Provider appraisal and … Continue reading →

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National Conversation on Local Health Inequalities, Plus Supporting Indicators and Local Authority Profiles (PHE / Health and Sport Committee: Scotland / UCL IHE)

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Public Health England (PHE) has released a collection of documents to promote the national conversation on health inequalities. The “National Conversation on Health Inequalities” event was part of a wider programme on the reduction of local differences in health … Continue reading →

Healthwatch England Strategy and Business Plan (Healthwatch England)

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Healthwatch England strategy (“Healthwatch England Strategy 2014-16”) and business plan (“Healthwatch England Business Plan 2014-15”) have been published. Full Text Link Reference Healthwatch England Strategy 2014 – 16. London: Healthwatch England, July 2014. Full Text Link Reference Healthwatch … Continue reading →

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Compliance with Monitor’s Integrated Care Requirements (Monitor)

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Monitor has issued online advice to help commissioners, providers of healthcare services and health and wellbeing boards to comply with their integrated care obligations. Read more: Integrated care: how to comply with Monitor’s requirements. Reference Integrated care: how to comply … Continue reading →

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Brief Guide to the New NHS (NHS England)

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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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Proposals for Reducing Health Inequalities (Department of Health / NICE / British Council’s Innovation Unit / UCL / CLASS)

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This letter from the Secretary of State for Health recognises the importance of reducing health inequalities and specifies nine criteria which will be used to assess whether health bodies (including the Department of Health, NHS England, Public Health England, … Continue reading →

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NHS Payment Reform (Nuffield Trust)

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS payment system has evolved over years into a complex mix of methods, prices, incentives and penalties. It is the product of over a decade of reforms to different components. Aspects of NHS payment systems may act as … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Standards, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 2012/13 Reference Costs, 2014/15 Tariff, 2015/16 National Tariff Payment System, Access to Services, Additional Payments, Alternative Payment Systems, Assessing and Meeting Needs and Payments, Attention Shift, Barriers to Integration, Best Practice Tariffs (BPTs), Beyond Institutional Boundaries, Block Budgets, Budget Management, Budgets, Calculating National Prices, Capitation, Care in Appropriate Settings, Care Settings, Case-Based Payments, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST), COBIC Consortium, Commissioning Acute Care Services, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Commissioning Landscape in England, Commissioning Local Services, Community Health Services, Community-Based Services, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Configuration of Services, Cost Benchmarking, Cost Uplifts, CQUIN Incentive Payments, Diagnosis-Related Payments, Differential Efficiency Factors, Direct Enhanced Service (DES) Payments, Disincentives, DRG Payments in European Countries, Efficiency, Efficiency Factor (Costings), Efficiency Savings, Emergency Services, Evolution of Payment by Results in the NHS, Extrinsic Motivation, Fee-For-Service, Fragmentation of Services and Commissioning, Funding GP Practices in England, Funding Reform, Gaming the System, HCHS: Hospital and Community Health Services Needs Index, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Reform, Health Care Purchased by PCTs (2012/13), Health Reform, Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs), Hospital Activity, Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS), Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) Needs Index, Hospital Reconfiguration, Inappropriate Care Settings, Incentive Payments, Increasing Efficiency, Institutional Boundaries, Integrated Services, Integrated Whole System Services for People With Dementia, Intrinsic Motivation, Leakage (Efficiency), Length of Stay (LoS), Linking Payment to Quality, Loss of Motivation, Market Forces Factor (MFF), Mental Health and Community Services, Mental Health Services, Modelled Prices, Monitor, Monitoring, National Prices Methodology Discussion Paper, National Tariff Payment System Consultation, NHS Budget, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) Workforce, NHS National Prices Methodology Discussion Paper: 2015/16, NHS National Tariff Payment System (The Tariff), NHS Payment Reform, NHS Payment System, NHS Payments System, NHS Productivity, NHS Reform, NHS Service Reconfiguration, Openness and Transparency, Organisational Boundaries, Oxfordshire CCG, Patient-Level Information and Costing System (PLICS), Pay-For-Performance Schemes, Pay-For-Performance Schemes in NHS Hospitals, Paying Lower (or Zero) Prices for Activity Above a Specified Level, Payment by Results, Payment by Results (PbR), Payment for Outcomes Not Outputs, Payment Mechanisms, Payment Reform, Payment System for Hospital Activity, Payments to Incentivise Service Transformation, Policy Objectives for DRG Payments, Potential NHS Provider Productivity improvements, Practice by Rote, Price-Setting Principles, Primary and Secondary Care, Primary Care Trusts and Weighted Capitation Formula, Priority Setting (Commissioning), Productivity, Productivity Improvements, Public Service Reform, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) Payment, Quality Payments in the NHS, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Redesigning Services, Reduced Gaming of the System, Reference Costs, Reform, Seamless Care Between Settings, Secondary Care, Service Development Costs, Service Transformation, Setting Objectives, Short Stay Emergency (SSEM) Bandings, SSEM Bandings, Supplier-Induced Demand, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Treatment Function Codes (TFCs), Unintended Consequences, Working Across Boundaries, Working the System and Unintended Consequences | Leave a comment

NHS England Research and Development Strategy (NHS England)

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England has a statutory responsibility to promote research, according to the NHS Constitution (2013), the Health and Social Care Act (2012) and the Mandate to NHS England. NHS England has released a draft research and development strategy. The … Continue reading →

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