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NEWS  - December 2015
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Malcolm and Ruth wish members, colleagues, associates and friends,
of all faiths or none,  a happy and peaceful Christmas
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LETTER TO CHAIRS AND CHIEF OFFICERS, LOCAL HEALTHWATCH from John Rouse, Director General of Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, Department of Health
17 December 2015 - 2 pages

Subject:  Recruitment of successor to Anna Bradley, Chair, Healthwatch England

CREATION OF NHS IMPROVEMENT
Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are to become ‘NHS Improvement’ under the leadership of [Chair] Ed Smith and [Chief Executive] Jim Mackey.

Monitor was created in 2004 as a regulator of Foundation Trusts’ governance and finance. Under the Health Act 2012, it was made the economic regulator for the NHS, with a specific duty to ensure the system was “economic, efficient and effective”, and has continued to closely oversee FTs’ finances.

When the merger of Monitor and the TDA was announced in June, the Department of Health said: “The closer working between Monitor and TDA will encompass those functions and duties carried out by both organisations.”

​At present there is expected to be no major change to NHS legislation to create NHS Improvement.

“It is not just about bringing together the two organisations, it’s creating a new organisation with a new purpose: to support providers to improve.”

UPCOMING BUSINESS - COMMONS: SELECT COMMITTEES
Health:
Primary Care - 2:30 pm  - Tuesday, 08 December 2015 - 
The Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses
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  • Anna Bradley, Chair, Healthwatch England
  • on Redding, Director of Policy, National Voices
  • Katherine Murphy, Chief Executive, The Patients Association
  • Rosamond Roughton, National Director of Commissioning Development, NHS England
  • ​Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, National Medical Director, NHS England
  • ulie Wood, Chief Executive, NHS Clinical Commissioners
  • Dr Steve Kell OBE, Co-chair, NHS Clinicial Commissioners and Chair, NHS Bassetlaw CCG

HEALTH AS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT - DEADLINE NOON 11 DECEMBER 2015
Building on the agenda set out in the Five Year Forward View, NHS England is taking forward a new three year programme to support social movements in health and care.
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Working initially with 4-6 local health and care communities across England, this programme will aim to develop, test and spread effective ways of mobilising people in social movements that improve health and care outcomes and show a positive return on investment.

PEOPLE-POWERED HEALTH:  STRENGTHENING PATIENT AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE WORK OF NHS ENGLAND
NHS England has published its new Patient and Public Participation Policy and Statement of Arrangements and Guidance on Patient and Public Participation in Commissioning. The new policy outlines our ambitions and approach to participation in all of our work and the arrangements describe how we meet our legal duty to involve the public in commissioning. Both documents were developed together with NHS England staff, patients and public representatives, and other key partners.

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