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Tag Archives: Transforming Primary Care Programme
NHS Mandate Updated (Department of Health)
Summary The updated NHS Mandate, from the Government to NHS England for the period April 2015 to March 2016, covers the renewed (and carried-forwards) ambitions for the health service. As with previous editions, it is structured around the five key … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), 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, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2015-16 Financial Directions to NHS England, Accelerating Innovation, Ambitions for the NHS (NHS Mandate), Assurance and Approval of Local Better Care Fund Plans, Autumn Statement (2014), Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Premature Mortality, BCF Taskforce, BCF Technical Guidance, Better Care Fund, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Fund Plans, Better Care Fund: Implementation Plans for 2015/16, Better Care Fund: Policy Framework, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Crisis Care Concordat, DCLG: Department for Communities and Local Government, Delivering Parity of Esteem, Department for Communities and Local Government, Department of Health Total DEL (Departmental Expenditure Limit), Diffusion of Innovation, Digital Health Innovations, Encouraging Innovation, End-User Experience, Enhancing Quality of Life for People with Long Term Conditions, Freeing the NHS to Innovate, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Integration Fund, Helping People Recover, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Integrated Care and Support Programme, Integrated Care and Support: Our Shared Commitment, Integration of Health and Social Care, Investing in Recovery, Local Better Care Fund Plans, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, Mental Health Waiting Times, Mental Health Waiting Times Targets, Mortality, Mortality Rates, New Technology, NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB), NHS Constitution, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Friends and Family Test, NHS Mandate, NHS Mandate 2015 to 2016, NHS Outcomes Framework, NHS Outcomes Framework 2015 to 2016, NHS Patient Experience Framework, NHS Reform, NHS Reform in England, NHS Waiting Times, NHSCB, Parity of Esteem, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Premature Death, Premature Mortality, Quality of Life for People With Dementia, Quality of Life for People With Long Term Conditions, Recovery, Reducing Premature Mortality, Service User Experience, Strategy for UK Life Sciences, Supporting Recovery, Time to Change campaign, Time to Change Programme, Total Revenue Resource Limit, Transforming Primary Care, Transforming Primary Care Programme, Transforming Primary Care Report, User Experience, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Times and Access Standards
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Towards the Second Wave: Update on Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund For Improving Access to GP Services (NHS England)
Summary GPs are able to bid for a share of £100m access fund, in the second wave of the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund available for improving patient access to GP services. The aim is to incentivise GP practices into opening … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 8am-8pm Appointments, Access to Care, Access to Healthcare Services, Access to Primary Care, Access to Primary Care At Night and Weekend, Access to Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Associate Networks to Share Learning, Avoidable Admissions, BBC Health News, Better Access Better Care Better Standards (Barking & Dagenham and Havering & Redbridge), Better Access Better Care Better Standards Barking & Dagenham and Havering and Redbridge, Better Access Better Care Better Standards Barking & Dagenham and Havering and Redbridge: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Better Together (Workington), Birmingham, BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC), BMA’s General Practitioners’ Committee, Bristol, Bury Easy GP Project, Bury Easy GP Project: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Care Closer to Home, Care UK Superpractice, Care UK Superpractice: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Caring for Darlington Beyond Tomorrow, Caring for Darlington Beyond Tomorrow: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Cheshire, Cheshire Warrington and Wirral, Complex Needs, Cooperative in Bristol and South Gloucestershire, Cooperative in Bristol and South Gloucestershire: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Cumbria, Darlington, Darlington Durham and Tees, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, Devon, Devon Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Digital Technology, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Support, Dr Mike Bewick: NHS England’s Deputy Medical Director, Easy GP Project (Bury), Email Access to GPs, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Enhanced Care for the Elderly, Extended GP Opening Hours, Extended Hours Access Scheme Directed Enhanced Service, Extended Primary Care Access in Southwark, Extended Primary Care Access in Southwark: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Extended Primary Integrated Care (Brighton and Hove), Extended Primary Integrated Care (EPIC) Brighton & Hove Practices, Extended Primary Integrated Care (EPIC) Brighton & Hove Practices: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Extended Weekday Opening, Extended Weekend Opening, Extending Access to GP Services, Extending Access to Primary Care (Southwark), First Wave of the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilots, Flexibility, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, GP Access Fund, GP Surgeries, GP Surgeries in England: Opening Hours, GPs, Greater Manchester, Health United (Birmingham), Health United Birmingham: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Healthy Living Apps, Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Hertfordshire and South Midlands, Holistic Care, Improving Access, Improving Access Supporting Primary Care Integrated Whole System Change: Taurus Healthcare Ltd, Improving Access Supporting Primary Care Integrated Whole System Change: Taurus Healthcare Ltd: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Improving Access Supporting Primary Care Integration and Whole System Change (Herefordshire), Improving Access to GP Services, Improving General Practice, Individual Care Plans (Complex Needs), Information Technology, Innovative Access to Primary Care Services, Integrated Primary Care Access Across Devon, Integrated Primary Care Access Across Devon Cornwall and Isles of Scilly: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Integrated South Kent Coast, Integrated South Kent Coast (Folkestone and Dover), Integrated South Kent Coast: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Kent and Medway, Lancashire, Long-Term Conditions, Longer Opening Hours, Mobile Technology, Moving Primary Care to a Wellbeing Approach (West Wakefield), Named GPs, New Technology, North East London, North Somerset, North West London, North Yorkshire and Humber, Northumberland, Older People With Complex Needs, One Care Consortium (Bristol South Gloucestershire and North Somerset), Online Patient Access, Opening Doors: Aligning and Integrating Health and Care Services (Morecambe), Opening Doors: Aligning and Integrating Health and Care Services in Morecambe, Opening Doors: Aligning and Integrating Health and Care Services in Morecambe: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Opening Hours, Out of Hours Care, Out of Hours GP Services, Out of Hours Services, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Patient Online Services, Phone Consultations, PM Challenge Fund, PM Challenge Fund Pilots, PM Challenge Fund Pilots (First Wave), PM Challenge Fund Pilots (Second Wave: Applications), Post-Discharge Support, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Home (Warrington), Primary Care Home: Warrington: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Prime Minister Challenge Fund Pilots, Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund, Proactive Care Plans, Proactive Personalised Care in the Community, Readmissions, Reducing Re-Admissions NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Responsible GPs, Same-Day GP Telephone Consultations, Second Wave of the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilots, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Seven-Day Working, Shaping Services to Meet Community Needs (Devon Cornwall and Isles of Scilly), Skype, Slough Steps to the Future, Slough Steps to the Future: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Solihull and Black Country, Somerset and South Gloucestershire, South London, Spreading Innovation, Steps to the Future (Slough), Support for People with Complex Needs, Surrey and Sussex), Thames Valley, Together as One Community, Together as One Community (Hambleton Richmondshire Whitby), Together as One Community: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Transformational Innovations for Primary Care in West Hertfordshire (Watford), Transformational Innovations for Primary Care in West Hertfordshire: Watford Care Alliance, Transformational Innovations for Primary Care in West Hertfordshire: Watford Care Alliance: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Transforming Access to General Practice (North West London), Transforming Access to General Practice: General Practices Across North West London, Transforming Access to General Practice: General Practices Across North West London: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Transforming General Practice (Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire), Transforming General Practice in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, Transforming General Practice in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Transforming Primary Care, Transforming Primary Care Programme, Transforming the Access Experience At Scale Across England, Transforming the Access Experience at Scale across England (The Care UK Super Practice), Transforming the Access Experience At Scale Across England: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, Tyne and Wear, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Virtual Primary Care Homes, West Wakefield: Moving Primary Care to a Population Wellbeing Approach, West Wakefield: Moving Primary Care to a Population Wellbeing Approach: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot, West Yorkshire, Working Evenings and Weekends, Workington Better Together: Developing Primary Care Communities in Cumbria, Workington Better Together: Developing Primary Care Communities in Cumbria: First Wave Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund Pilot
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Mandate for Health Education England: April 2014 to March 2015 (Department of Health)
Summary This Department of Health mandate defines the role of Health Education England (HEE) in (a) the Government’s response to the Francis Inquiry report and (b) the requirements of HEE to support NHS and public health service priorities including improvements … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Mental Health, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
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Tagged Accountability, Apprenticeships, Children and Young People’s Health, Competent and Capable Staff, Compulsory Work-Based Training Modules in Mental Health (Including Dementia), Confidential Inquiry into the Premature Deaths of People with Learning Difficulties, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Dementia Awareness Training, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Diagnosis, Dementia Training for NHS Staff, Department of Health Dementia Challenge, Diagnosis Rates, Dignity in Death and Dying, Dr Dan Poulter (Former Health Minister), Education and Training, Emergency Medicine Consultants, Emergency Medicine Workforce Implementation Group (EMWIG), Equality and Diversity, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, Excellent Education, Former Conservative Health Minister Dr Dan Poulter, Growth, Health Education, Health Education England Mandate, Health Education England Mandate: April 2014 to March 2015, HEE: Health Education England, Home Office’s Shortage Occupation List, IAPT Programme, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Improving the Quality of Education, Improving Veterans’ Health, Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care. RCGP, Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People, Liberating the NHS, Local Accountability, Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), Long-Term Conditions, Mandate to Health Education England, Maternity Workforce, National Clinical Lead for Mental Health, NHS Role in Global Healthcare, NHS Values, NHS Values and Constitution, Older Persons’ Nurse Fellowship Programme, Out-of-Hospital Care, Patient and Public Voice, Postgraduate Medical Education, Prevention Pays: Our Children Deserve Better, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Professor Greenaway, Public Health, Reactions to the Francis Inquiry Report, Reducing Attrition Rates in Undergraduate Nursing and Midwifery Courses, Reform of Education and Training Funding, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Research and Innovation, Shape of Training Report, Skills, Skills and Competencies, Social Mobility, Staff Skill Development, Staff Training, Support of Students and Trainees, Supporting Economic Growth, Tier 2 Dementia Training, Training, Training and Capacity-Building, Transforming Primary Care, Transforming Primary Care Programme, Transparency, Value for Money, Values, Whole Stay Strategy, Widening Participation, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Diversity, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Planning Implications From Francis 2013, Workforce Training, Working Time Directive
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GP Access Fund Could Help 7 Milllion Patients (BBC News)
Summary The GP Access Fund, intended to make it easier for people to access their GPs during evenings or weekends, and/or to contact them remotely by phone, email and Skype, could benefit over seven million patients (a higher number than … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Department of Health, In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 8am-8pm Appointments, Access to Care, Access to Healthcare Services, Access to Primary Care, Access to Primary Care At Night and Weekend, Access to Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Associate Networks to Share Learning, Avoidable Admissions, BBC Health News, Better Access Better Care Better Standards (Barking & Dagenham and Havering & Redbridge), Better Together (Workington), BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC), BMA’s General Practitioners’ Committee, Care Closer to Home, Caring for Darlington Beyond Tomorrow, Complex Needs, Digital Technology, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Support, Easy GP Project (Bury), Email Access to GPs, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Enhanced Care for the Elderly, Extended GP Opening Hours, Extended Hours Access Scheme Directed Enhanced Service, Extended Primary Integrated Care (Brighton and Hove), Extended Weekday Opening, Extended Weekend Opening, Extending Access to GP Services, Extending Access to Primary Care (Southwark), Flexibility, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, GP Access Fund, GP Surgeries, GP Surgeries in England: Opening Hours, GPs, Health United (Birmingham), Healthy Living Apps, Holistic Care, Improving Access, Improving Access Supporting Primary Care Integration and Whole System Change (Herefordshire), Improving General Practice, Individual Care Plans (Complex Needs), Information Technology, Innovative Access to Primary Care Services, Integrated South Kent Coast (Folkestone and Dover), Long-Term Conditions, Longer Opening Hours, Mobile Technology, Moving Primary Care to a Wellbeing Approach (West Wakefield), Named GPs, New Technology, Older People With Complex Needs, One Care Consortium (Bristol South Gloucestershire and North Somerset), Online Patient Access, Opening Doors: Aligning and Integrating Health and Care Services (Morecambe), Opening Hours, Out of Hours Care, Out of Hours GP Services, Out of Hours Services, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Patient Online Services, Phone Consultations, PM Challenge Fund, PM Challenge Fund Pilots, Post-Discharge Support, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Home (Warrington), Prime Minister Challenge Fund Pilots, Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund, Proactive Care Plans, Proactive Personalised Care in the Community, Readmissions, Reducing Re-Admissions NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Responsible GPs, Same-Day GP Telephone Consultations, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Seven-Day Working, Shaping Services to Meet Community Needs (Devon Cornwall and Isles of Scilly), Skype, Spreading Innovation, Steps to the Future (Slough), Support for People with Complex Needs, Together as One Community (Hambleton Richmondshire Whitby), Transformational Innovations for Primary Care in West Hertfordshire (Watford), Transforming Access to General Practice (North West London), Transforming General Practice (Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire), Transforming Primary Care, Transforming Primary Care Programme, Transforming the Access Experience at Scale across England (The Care UK Super Practice), Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Virtual Primary Care Homes, Working Evenings and Weekends
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