News

Social Partnership Forum June 2010 The Social Partnership Forum (SPF) is a partnership between the Department of Health, NHS Employers and NHS Trade Unions to improve working relationships and involve partners in the workforce... Read More →
Strategic Review of Health Inequalities Published May 2010 Sir Michael Marmot has published his report - Fair Society, Healthy Lives – outlining proposals to reduce health inequalities from 2010. It includes policies and interventions that address the... Read More →
Free, Unlimited Access To Two Thousand Years Of Mankind And Medicine In Pictures May 2010 'Wellcome Images' is a large collection of images on the history of medicine, modern biomedical science and clinical medicine. All content has been made available under a Creative Commons Licence,... Read More →
Report on the Health of Health Professionals April 2010 A recent Department of Health (England) report, Invisible Patients, specifically focuses on the health issues facing regulated health professionals and identifies some priorities for addressing them. Read More →
NHS Urged To Say Sorry When Things Go Wrong March 2010 The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has published strengthened guidelines for NHS organizations in England and Wales on Being Open - a set of principles that healthcare staff should use when... Read More →
Swine flu: UK planning assumptions October 2009 A document has been published containing revised planning assumptions in relation to the current A(H1N1) Swine Flu pandemic. The assumptions are intended to provide a common agreed basis for... Read More →
NHS-funded nursing care practice guide (revised) 2009 October 2009 A practice guide has been published setting out the process for determining the eligibility for NHS-funded Nursing Care under the National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded... Read More →
Integrated care pilots: an introductory guide October 2009 An introductory guide to the national programme of integrated care pilots and evaluation has been published. It provides a summary of the work each pilot will be doing as they implement and test... Read More →
Responding to Regulations in Response to Shipman Inquiry October 2009 The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report detailing significant progress in implementing regulations introduced in response to the Shipman Inquiry. The regulations, introduced in... Read More →
NICE 2008/09 annual report August 2009 The publication of the NICE 2008/09 Annual Report and annual accounts marks the Institute?s 10th anniversary year. Read More →

Resources

Online Infection Control Site By UCLH June 2010 An online directory of infectious diseases by University College London Hospital (UCLH) and the Whittington and North...
Online Collaboration Tool For NHS Staff May 2010 Staff across the NHS with an interest in how IT is enabling change will benefit from the introduction of eSpace, a new...
Online Infection Control Manual Northern Ireland November 2009 The Regional Infection Prevention and Control Manual.
Critical care strategy: managing the H1N1 flu pandemic October 2009 A strategy has been published setting out the Department of Health approach to managing critical care during the swine flu...
Pandemic Flu: Planning & Responding To Primary Care Capacity Challenges September 2009 New guidance has been published for PCTs on how to deliver primary care services whilst potentially short staffed and how...
Report on the National Patient Choice Survey September 2009 A report has been published giving the final results of around 93,000 responses to the seventeenth national patient choice...
Commissioning Website Gets Additional Features September 2009 A website set up earlier this year to support the Practice Based Commissioning (PBC) Connection - a network of networks...
A guide to finance in the NHS for hospital doctors August 2009 The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) and the Audit Commission have jointly published a short, practical manual to...
GMC Launches Complaints Website for Patients August 2009 The GMC has launched an online information centre, Patients? help, to let patients know who to contact when they have a...
Commissioning Information Source Launched by the King?s Fund August 2009 An online information service designed to support the ongoing development of world class commissioning in the NHS has been...
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