King’s Fund on state of health and social care

The report finds that for the final quarter of 2012/13, nearly 6% of patients waited four hours or longer in A&E, the highest level since 2004.

Health workforce information review

This report sets out findings and recommendations from a review of the arrangements for handling health workforce data and intelligence. A supporting document provides links to best practice and toolkits on information governance.

Acheiving value in health systems – HFMA Right Care briefing

This briefing describes how Right Care’s approach supports the delivery of reform and improvement in a robust and systematic way, ensuring that the effort of the organisation and its partners is focused on transforming the right services to deliver improvements to patients while saving money.

Putting patients at the heart of care

This briefing from the NHS Confederation highlights the experiences of some of the independent sector organisations that have looked hard at the total package of care they provide to ensure they continue to meet the changing needs and demands of their patients.

Acheiving value in health systems – HFMA Right Care briefing

This briefing describes how Right Care’s approach supports the delivery of reform and improvement in a robust and systematic way, ensuring that the effort of the organisation and its partners is focused on transforming the right services to deliver improvements to patients while saving money.

New website highlights variation in avoidable death

The figures are part of Longer Lives, a new Public Health England (PHE) website which allows local people to see easily how their areas perform on early deaths from the major four killers, like heart disease and cancer, and how this varies across the country.

Social media for chief executives: the essential guide

This briefing explores how using social media platforms can help NHS chief executives develop a collaborative leadership style that helps get results in the complex system of health and social care.

Clinical commissioning hub

This hub brings together information to support the commissioning of secondary care services across medical specialties.  It also reinforces the promotion of patient experience and education and training in commissioning decisions.

Proposals for the 2014/15 national tariff

Monitor and NHS England have published three documents on proposals for the 2014/15 national tariff.

CQC launches consultation on the future of inspection and regulation

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published plans to change the way health and social care is regulated.  This consultation focuses on hospital care.

Your choices: consultant choice

NHS England will begin the staged publication of mortality rates for individual hospital consultants in ten specialties.  The data – covering around 3,500 consultants – will appear on the NHS Choices website and will cover a range of operations and procedures.

Approved Costing Guidance

Costing services accurately has the potential to deliver higher quality care to patients and better value for the NHS, both through better prices and improved information for clinicians and other decision makers at health care providers.  The Approved Costing Guidance sets out Monitor’s approach to costing and we are encouraging providers of NHS-funded services to adopt this approach
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