This
analysis from CHKS found that for elective admissions, discharges and caesareans
and for most procedures and diagnostics, there is a significant drop in
activity at the weekend.
Foundation Trust toolkit
The NHS Commissioning Board
has developed and road-tested a toolkit which looks at the processes involved
in becoming a foundation trust (FT) and how CCGs might work with local
providers.
Resource pack published for local health resilience partnerships
New arrangements for local health emergency preparedness,resilience and response (EPRR) will start from 1 April 2013. A key feature of
which is the formation of local health resilience partnerships (LHRPs) for
which this resource pack has been produced.
Strategic clinical networks
The NHS
Commissioning Board Authority has set out its plan for a small number ofnational networks to improve health services for specific patient groups or
conditions: cancer; cardiovascular
disease; maternity and children’s services; Mental health, dementia and
neurological conditions.
Preparing for the Francis report: how to assure quality in the NHS
In this report, the King’s Fund
sets out its
views on how the system of quality assurance, including regulation, needs to
evolve, the principles on which it should be built and how it should operate.
New NHS internal audit standards published
New NHS internal audit standards
have been published by the Department of Health and take effect from 1 April
2011.
Quality of data across health and social care
A new report from the NHS Information Centre finds that
the error rate in PbR data ranged from zero to more
than 20 per cent; 4,500 duplicate patient care records; and the recording of
valid NHS numbers by hospitals was above 98 per cent for inpatient and
outpatient services but only at 93 per
cent for accident and emergency services.
The NHS Performance Framework 2012/13 update to patient experience annex B
The patientexperience annex (annex B) has been changed.
This update includes details of the thresholds against which data will
be measured, based on averages calculated from the 2011/12 CQC Inpatient
Survey.
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