Key Points - 25th July 2008
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Department
of Health
the
week: issue 55, 18 - 24 July 2008
This bulletin is published every Thursday. It
provides news, consultations and events for chief executives in the NHS and
local authorities and their teams. It gives links to more information and
resources, highlighting areas for action.
Emergency care bulletin, issue 58,
July 2008
A bulletin for everyone working in emergency care.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Bulletins/Emergencycareleadsbulletin/index.htm
The first annual report of the
Independent Mental Capacity Advocacy Service. Year 1, April 2007-March 2008
The
Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) service was established under the
MCA in April 2007. This is the first annual report.
Dementia strategy work programme and
planned events - updated
Review of
prescription of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia: terms of
reference
PPRS legislation
The Health
Service Branded Medicines (Control of Prices and Supply of Information)
Regulations 2008
NHS Local
This document sets out the rationale and
guidance for primary care trusts' freedom to re-name their trusts as NHS Local.
In simple terms, this means that PCT organisations
(including Teaching PCTs) could adopt the NHS prefix
before their place name. For example, Blackpool PCT will become known as NHS Blackpool
and Bournemouth and Poole Teaching PCT will become known as NHS Bournemouth and
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: six
months on
This
newsletter provides an update on progress since the publication of Healthy
Weight, Healthy Lives: a cross-Government strategy for
Introduction of HPV vaccination into
the national immunisation programme: vaccination of 17- to 18-year-old young
women in 2008/09 [Letter]
This letter provides information about the
extension of the human papillomavirus vaccination programme to young women aged 17 to 18 and the additional
finance to support the implementation of the programme.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Lettersandcirculars/Dearcolleagueletters/DH_086515
Confidence in caring: a framework
for best practice
This guidance offers a shared language and
shared understanding of what caring means for older people and describes what caring
should look like so that it can be observed, improved and rewarded.
Aiming high for disabled children:
short breaks implementation guidance
This guidance will help local authorities and
primary care trusts deliver a programme to provide
short breaks for disabled children, a central component of a wider change programme for disabled children’s services.
Safe, sensible, social –
consultation on further action [Closing date: 14 October 2008]
This consultation seeks views on industry
practice and whether there is a need for further regulation of alcohol
retailing.
Framing the nursing and midwifery
contribution: driving up the quality of care
This report
summarises the contribution of nurses and midwives, which was outlined in 'High
quality care for all: NHS next stage review'
This
document sets out a direction of travel for the professions.
Towards a framework for
post-registration nursing careers: consultation response report
This report summarises
the findings from the post-registration nursing careers consultation, which
proposed aligning nurses' careers within five broad pathways. It discusses the
emerging themes from the findings and outlines the next steps for the work.
Medical revalidation - principles
and next steps: the Report of the Chief Medical Officer for England's Working
Group
This report sets out the principles and next
steps for implementing medical revalidation in the
Responsible officers and their
duties relating to the medical profession [Closing date: 24 October 2008]
This consultation seeks views on what should
be included in secondary legislation covering the reform of professional
regulation, including the creation of responsible officers. These will be
senior doctors with personal responsibility for evaluating the conduct and
performance of doctors and making recommendations on their fitness to practise as part of revalidation.
The Council for Healthcare
Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) Draft Regulations 2008: a paper for consultation
[Closing date: 16 September 2008]
This consultation seeks views on proposals
for the membership of the reformed Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence
Council. These proposals provide details of the terms of office of council
members, criteria for the disqualification, suspension or removal of members
from office, committees appointed by the Council and transitional arrangements
in terms of appointments.
Report to Ministers from the
Department of Health steering group on the statutory regulation of practitioners
of acupuncture, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and other
traditional medicine systems practised in the
This report identifies issues and proposes
options for education and training, registration, fitness to practise and other essential aspects of regulation of
traditional medicine practice.
Membership governance in NHS
Foundation Trusts: a review for the Department of Health
This report summarises
the findings of an independent review of membership governance in NHS
foundation trusts, including the experience of creating a membership,
establishing a board of governors and deciding how best to use members and
governors
A framework for the performance
management of high security hospitals
This
framework describes the structure and mechanisms by which the maintenance of
the Secretary of State’s 'Line of Sight' to high
security hospitals should be discharged by Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs). The
quarterly performance spreadsheet describes the data which is collected
quarterly to inform SHAs' performance management of
the hospitals.
Health and Social Care Act 2008
receives Royal Assent
The Health
and Social Care Act 2008, which will enhance the safety and quality of care and
improve public health, has received Royal Assent.
DH news releases 19-25 July 2008
Main points
Views heard on how
Health Secretary Alan
Johnson callx for a national movement to tackle the
growing problem of obesity. In a major speech on
public health the Secretary of State for Health outlinex
the public health implications of the obesity epidemic and arguex
that our strategy to combat obesity will only succeed if every part of our
society recognises the problem and joins together to
takes steps to address it.
Plans to improve patient safety and support
professionals in sustaining their high standards, were
set out by the Chief Medical Officer for England (CMO) Sir Liam Donaldson.
The Health and Social Care Act 2008, which
will enhance the safety and quality of care and improve public health, has
received Royal Assent.
£2.7 billion: new estimated cost of alcohol
to the NHS
300,000 more girls to be offered vaccine
against cervical cancer
Health and Care Minister Ivan Lewis announced
the sites that will benefit from £80million of Government funding to build extra
care housing, enabling more older people and those
with dementia and long-term conditions to live in a home of their own. He
presents the successful
Statistics
18
Weeks Referral to Treatment statistics
May 2008 data
Information
Centre
Alzheimer's (HES 2006-07 data)
NICE
CG68
Stroke
The
diagnosis and acute management of stroke and transient ischaemic
attacks
Patients
with suspected stroke should be admitted directly to specialist stroke units.
CG70
This is an update of NICE inherited clinical guideline D
CG63 This is a re-issue of the guideline published in March
following amendment to some of the information
Diabetes in
pregnancy: management of diabetes and its complications from pre-conception to
the postnatal period
TA151
Diabetes - insulin pump therapy
Continuous
subcutaneous insulin infusion for the treatment of diabetes (review
TA152
Coronary artery disease - drug-eluting stents
IPG268
Brachytherapy as the sole method of adjuvant
radiotherapy for breast cancer after local excision
IPG
269 Laparoscopic gastrectomy for cancer
IPG270
Direct skeletal fixation of limb or digit prostheses using intraosseous
transcutaneous implants
PH14 Preventing the uptake of
smoking by children and young people
Social
value judgements: principles for the development of NICE guidance.
Social
Value Judgements: Principles for the Development of NICE Guidance describes the principles that NICE should
follow in designing the processes it uses to develop its guidance and in
developing individual pieces of guidance. It is mainly about the judgements
that NICE and its advisory bodies should apply when making decisions about the
effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions, especially where such
decisions affect the allocation of NHS resources.
Scottish
Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
Antibiotic
Prophylaxis in surgery
This
guideline makes recommenations on best practice in
the use of peri-operative prophylactic anti-biotics to prevent surgical site infections (SSI).
Healthcare
Commission
Healthcare
watchdog highlights best and worst NHS hospital care for people with acute
mental health problems
The
Healthcare Commission has said the quality of the services varied widely
across the country as it published the most comprehensive assessment of NHS
acute inpatient mental health services ever undertaken.
Commission
for Social Care Inspection
Annual report 2007-08
This document is the fourth annual report
from the commission. It lists key achievements for the last year including
improving poorer performing services and introducing a quality rating system
that makes it easier for people to choose care services.
http://www.csci.org.uk/professional/default.aspx?page=7226&csci=2544
Primary
Care Commissioning
PCC
publishes Providing Care for Patients with Urological Conditions: Guidance and
Resources for Commissioners
http://www.primarycarecontracting.nhs.uk/news/492
PCC Publishes new Providing Care for Patients with Skin
Conditions: Guidance and Resources for Commissioning
National clinical guidelines for stroke
This 3rd
edition has been completely revised to include the most up to date evidence
since the 1994 edition.
Department
for Innovation, Universities and Skills
It's
time to talk training: how to develop a dialogue on skills at the
workplace
This
guidance is based on the experiences of ten case study organisations that are
exemplars of good practice in discussing training and skills effectively with
their workforces.
http://www.dius.gov.uk/publications/TimeToTalkTraining.pdf
Food
Standards Agency
Draft
Commission Regulation foods suitable for people intolerant to gluten (
The
proposed Commission Regulation will put in place compositional criteria related
to the claims ‘gluten-free’ and ‘very low gluten’ for foods that have been
manufactured specifically to satisfy the particular nutritional requirements of
people who are intolerant to gluten, as provided for in Commission Directive
89/398/EEC (as amended) on foods for particular nutritional uses.
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