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NEWS - JANUARY 2020


LETTER TO SIR SIMON STEVENS, Chief Executive, NHS England, from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, HAPIA
27 January 2020 ... 4 pages


'NICE' RECOMMEND 'DIGITAL'
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In a new draft guideline, NICE says that digital interventions such as apps, wearable devices and online programmes and websites may help people achieve health goals. This includes helping people to be more physically active, manage their weight, quit smoking, reduce alcohol intake or reduce unsafe sexual behaviour.


JEREMY HUNT HAS BEEN ELECTED CHAIR OF THE COMMONS' HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE COMMITTEE
Mr Hunt, whose victory was announced last night, said afterwards: “For my last six months as Health Secretary, social care was formally added to my responsibilities, but it was not long enough to bring forward reforms or — more crucially – a funding settlement for social care.

“That is what I will be pressing for, because the NHS will continue to fall over every winter until we fix social care, risking both patient safety and staff morale.

I’ll also focus on making faster progress on mental health and patient safety; recent maternity scandals show we can never be complacent. I look forward to working with my committee to provide a strong, independent voice that supports NHS staff and patients in a very pressured period.”


TWO-HOUR, EXPERT, RAPID RESPONSE TEAM ...
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Expert rapid response teams will be on hand within two hours to help support older people to remain well at home and avoid hospital admissions, under new plans outlined by the NHS today.

Local health service and council teams will begin the roll out of Urgent Community Response teams from April, as part of the NHS’ Long Term Plan to support England’s ageing population and those with complex needs.


FUNDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHCARE
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In the past five years local planning authorities failed to spend more than a third of the funding they secured for the development of healthcare infrastructure, according to a report by the think tank Reform.
 
The report says that of £87m available to planners, more than £34m is currently unspent. The report blames a lack of awareness of the Section 106 planning contributions process, insufficient expertise and skills among staff, and poor co-ordination. It concludes that the NHS is missing out on potentially millions of pounds that could go towards improving and delivering vital services for patients.

MOST NHS COMPUTERS RUNNING DECADE-OLD VERSION OF WINDOWS​
The NHS has been given another 11 months of support for a decade-old version of Microsoft Windows, while about half of its computers are still running the softfware.

This is despite NHS organisations having been ordered in spring 2018 to migrate all their devices by today (Tuesday 14 January), because Microsoft was due to withdraw its support — such as security features, technical support or software updates — for Windows 7.

As the migration has taken longer than expected, trusts, clinical commissioning groups, and national NHS organisations have now been given until December to move to using Windows 10 on all computers and laptops.
Under the revised deal, the NHS will continue to receive support from Microsoft until 14 January 2021, as the migration has taken longer than expected.

The latest figures from NHS Digital show the majority of relevant devices in the health service are still using Windows 7, which was released in 2009.

2020 GP PATIENT SURVEY
If you want to look at the survey, it can be found at www.gp-patient.co.uk
 
This link will enable you to enter your own GP Practice, by name or by postcode, and will tell you how many surveys went out, how many were returned, and what the positives and negatives of the responses were.

​CONTRACT DIRECTED ENHANCED SERVICE (DES) - NATIONAL SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS 2020/2021
GP Contract framework, which will be delivered by Primary Care Networks (PCNs) - in collaboration with community services and other providers - from April 2020.

 
The GP Contract framework set out seven national service specifications that will be added to the Network Contract DES: five starting from April 2020, and a further two from April 2021.
 
The five services are:
•    Structured Medication Reviews and Optimisation
•    Enhanced Health in Care Homes (jointly with community services providers)
•    Anticipatory Care (jointly with community services providers)
•    Personalised Care 
•    Supporting Early Cancer Diagnosis.

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