The report looks at standards relating to patient nutrition and hydration, healthier eating across hospitals and sutainable food and catering services.
NHS adoption of the recommended standards will be required through the NHS contract meaning that hospitals will have a legal duty to comply with the recommendations.
The panel, set up by Health Minister Dr Dan Poulter and led by Dianne Jeffrey from Age UK, examined existing food standards, advising on how they should be applied and monitored.
This independent review seeks information which will outline the kinds of choices that people would like to be able to make at the end of life and information about the funding, systems and processes that would be needed to enable choices to be acted upon. The review focuses on end of life care for adults aged 18 and over, and within the current legal framework. Therefore, it does not focus on assisted dying or anything that would involve changes to mental capacity legislation.
Intended to help GPs, nurses and other health and care staff develop personalised care plans with those who are most vulnerable and have complex health and care needs.
The template includes lots of important questions from gathering information about allergies and current medication to also collecting people’s emergency contacts.
This report reviews the findings from the 2012/13 patient level information and costing systems (PLICS) pilot data collection for admitted patient care. It is intended to be used by all NHS staff who are responsible for, or contribute to, the production of cost information.
In this paper, Monitor and NHS England set out their current thinking on options for reforming the urgent and emergency care payment approach. It outlines preliminary options for implementing a new payment approach to support improved delivery of urgent and emergency care, as well as the way forward for NHS England and Monitor.
Interim report that outlines the progress with NHS England’s work with local commissioners and the development of their five year strategic and two year operational plans as well as updates on planning to develop demonstrator sites to trial new models, including the new NHS 111 service specification.
Blog post by the Think Tank Reform’s Andrew Haldenby considering the role of charging in the NHS. Research by Reform, carried out last year, found that a £10 charge for GP consultations (with exemptions on the basis of age and income) could raise £1.2 billion each year for the NHS. Reforming prescription charges could raise an additional £1.4 billion each year. This would help plug the annual funding gap of £4 billion, estimated by NHS England. This blog posts identifies little appetite for charges.
Video from Helen Bevan of NHS Improving Quality imagining the future of change and the leadership of change. Identifies that the focus needs to move from focus on the structure of change to a focus on how to achieve change.
Webinar recording from the Health Foundation, that explores how the socio-technical allocation of resources – the Star approach – which can help commissioners and those planning services in resource allocation.
This summary data will help assess the effects of DH policies and reforms on the cost and impact of public services. Input indicators show the resources being invested into delivering results. Impact indicators give information on the outcomes of our work.