NEWS - OCTOBER 2014
2014 CONFERENCE and ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Healthwatch Challenge to Primary Care ... 'Beyond Chaos and Complexity'
Thursday, 30 October 10.00am (Registration) - 4.30pm
FRIENDS HOUSE, LONDON, NW1 2BJ
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The Healthwatch Challenge to Primary Care ... 'Beyond Chaos and Complexity'
Thursday, 30 October 10.00am (Registration) - 4.30pm
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Letter from: CARE QUALITY COMMISSION in response to a letter sent by Malcolm Alexander, Chair, HAPIA
In terms of:
In terms of:
- Trusts
- Coroners
- Legal Framework
THE GP CONTRACT FOR 2015/2016
A summary of what the 2015/16 GP contract deal in England contains.
A summary of what the 2015/16 GP contract deal in England contains.
- A named GP for all patients, including children, with a simpler requirement to inform patients at the ‘next appropriate interaction’.
- Patients will be given online access to all coded information in their GP records online, but not free text. A larger proportion of appointments will be available to book online and GPs will also be required to offer patients email access to the practice.
- The unplanned admissions DES will be renewed, but with the reporting template cut by half. Care plans for patients who die or move away will now count within the 2%, and those who received one during this year will have to be reviewed, but will not need a completely new care plan. A new ‘patient survey’ will be introduced.
- Funding for locum cover for GPs on maternity and paternity will become an ‘automatic right’ for all practices.
- No changes to the size or value of the QOF, although discussions are continuing over the NICE menu of changes to clinical indicators. Plans to hike thresholds have been put on hold for another year. Point values will be adjusted to take account of population growth and relative changes in practice list size.
- There will be a 15% reduction in the total seniority payments as agreed in the GP 2014/15 contract
- GPs will be required to publish their average net earnings for partners and salaried GPs on their website by March 2016, although non-contract earnings will be exempt.
- The patient participation enhanced service will end and associated funding will be reinvested into global sum. From 1 April 2015, it will be a contractual requirement for all practices to have a patient participation group (PPG) and to make reasonable efforts for this to be representative of the practice population.
- The alcohol enhanced service will end and associated funding will be reinvested into global sum. From 1 April 2015 it will be a contractual requirement for all practices to identify newly registered patients aged 16 or over who are drinking alcohol at increased or higher risk levels.
- GPC, NHS England and NHS Employers will work together to develop more consistent guidance for the provision of enhanced minor surgery services.
- The extended hours and learning disabilities enhanced services will be extended and unchanged for a further year.
- Changes to registration regulations will allow for armed forces personnel to be registered with a GP practice.
- Assurance on out of hours provision has been agreed to ensure that all service providers are delivering out of hours care in line with the National Quality Requirements (or any successor quality standards).
- NHS England and GPC will work together on workforce issues including the retainer /returner scheme, the flexible careers scheme, and recruitment problems in specific areas.
- GPC, NHS Employers and NHS England will have a broader strategic discussion about the primary care estate, especially to support the transfer of care into a community setting.
- NHS England and GPC will re-examine the Carr-Hill formula with the aim of adapting the formula to better reflect deprivation.
- Correction factor funding moving into global sum will be reinvested, with no out of hours deduction applying; NHS England has agreed that any funding released from PMS reviews will be invested in primary medical care services
TELEHEALTH ... CHANGE OF PLAN BY NHS ENGLAND
NHS England has revealed details of the long awaited successor to its 3 Million Lives telehealth programme, which has been scrapped.
A letter from medical director, Sir Bruce Keogh, sent today to organisations involved in the health and care technology, outlined the key tenets of the organisation’s new “technology enabled care services” (TECS) programme.
The ambition of the 3 Million Lives project, to support 3 million people to use telehealth and telecare by 2017, has been ditched. The new programme is based on a strategy developed by NHS England in recent months, called the TECS Improvement Plan, which it has apparently refused to publish.
The original 3 Million Lives project was launched by Prime Minister, David Cameron, in December 2011 with considerable fanfare. However, it gradually unravelled because of a lack of buy-in from the NHS. NHS England announced in November that it was scrapping seven pathfinder projects!
NHS England has revealed details of the long awaited successor to its 3 Million Lives telehealth programme, which has been scrapped.
A letter from medical director, Sir Bruce Keogh, sent today to organisations involved in the health and care technology, outlined the key tenets of the organisation’s new “technology enabled care services” (TECS) programme.
The ambition of the 3 Million Lives project, to support 3 million people to use telehealth and telecare by 2017, has been ditched. The new programme is based on a strategy developed by NHS England in recent months, called the TECS Improvement Plan, which it has apparently refused to publish.
The original 3 Million Lives project was launched by Prime Minister, David Cameron, in December 2011 with considerable fanfare. However, it gradually unravelled because of a lack of buy-in from the NHS. NHS England announced in November that it was scrapping seven pathfinder projects!
NHS ENGLAND DELAYS FLAGSHIP POLICY TO OPEN UP GP PRACTICE BOUNDARIES UNTIL JANUARY 2015
NHS England now says that it will be delaying the scheme for opening up GP practice boundaries until 5 January 2015
A spokesperson for NHS England, said:
‘This has been an ambitious piece of work designed to increase the flexibility that patients have in choosing their GP. With such a change, we have to be completely assured that robust arrangements are in place across the country should patients who register with a GP outside their area need urgent in-hours primary medical care at or near home. This has been a big undertaking and we have taken the decision that more time is needed to ensure these arrangements are fully bedded-in - a decision that has been taken in the best interests of GP practices and patients.’
NHS England now says that it will be delaying the scheme for opening up GP practice boundaries until 5 January 2015
A spokesperson for NHS England, said:
‘This has been an ambitious piece of work designed to increase the flexibility that patients have in choosing their GP. With such a change, we have to be completely assured that robust arrangements are in place across the country should patients who register with a GP outside their area need urgent in-hours primary medical care at or near home. This has been a big undertaking and we have taken the decision that more time is needed to ensure these arrangements are fully bedded-in - a decision that has been taken in the best interests of GP practices and patients.’
INFORMATION FOR HEALTHWATCH - [email protected]
Sources include: King's Fund Health Policy and Management Alerts
Social Care Institute for Excellence
National Voices
Healthwatch and Public Involvement Association (HAPIA)
Topics:
Sources include: King's Fund Health Policy and Management Alerts
Social Care Institute for Excellence
National Voices
Healthwatch and Public Involvement Association (HAPIA)
Topics:
- NHS England Bulletin for CCGs
- NHS England Dementia Toolkit for GPs
- Integrated Personal Commissioning
- Local Government Funding: Assurance to Parliament
- Congenital Heart Disease Review
- More than Money: Closing the NHS Quality Gap
- Investigating the Future of Self-Supported Management
- Display of Performance Assessments - Placing a legal requirement on registered providers to display the rating published by the Care Quality Commission
CQC REJECTS CCG INVOLVEMENT
A Clinical Commissioning Group leader has called on the Care Quality Commission to allow CCGs to join inspections of their local hospitals.
Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG Chief Clinical Officer, Vicky Pleydell, has twice written to the CQC to make the request. However, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Sir Mike Richards, has rejected it “due to potential conflicts of interest”.
A Clinical Commissioning Group leader has called on the Care Quality Commission to allow CCGs to join inspections of their local hospitals.
Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG Chief Clinical Officer, Vicky Pleydell, has twice written to the CQC to make the request. However, Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Sir Mike Richards, has rejected it “due to potential conflicts of interest”.
PARLIAMENTARY REGULATIONS - Upcoming business - Thursday, 23 October 2014
Commons: Main Chamber
Commons: Main Chamber
- Transport, including Topical Questions; House of Commons Commission; Leader of the House of Commons Oral Questions; 9:30 am
- Leader of the House Business Statement
- Subject to be announced Adjournment debate
- Debate on the Eighth Report of the Science and Technology Committee: Communicating climate science, Session 2013-14, HC 254, and the Government response, HC 376 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
- Copyright and Rights in Performances (Certain Permitted Uses of Orphan Works) Regulations 2014 – Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Baroness Neville-Rolfe Orders and Regulations; 2:00 pm
- Copyright and Rights in Performances (Licensing of Orphan Works) Regulations 2014 - Baroness Neville-Rolfe Orders and Regulations
- Legal Services Act 2007 (Approved Regulator) (No. 2) Order 2014 – Lord Faulks Orders and Regulations
- Judicial Appointments (Amendment) Order 2014 – Lord Faulks Orders and Regulations
- Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2014 – Lord Wallace of Tankerness Orders and Regulations
- Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 – Earl Howe Orders and Regulations
RIGHT TO HAVE A PERSONAL HEALTH BUDGET
19 pages
The aim of this guidance document is to assist Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and other relevant bodies who commission NHS services and support, for example NHS England, to meet their duty to ensure people eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) and Continuing Care for Children (CC) benefit from the “right to have” a personal health budget from 1st October 2014 as announced by Government in October 2013 and provided for in the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2014.
This document also includes links to the personal health budgets toolkit. This toolkit includes detailed practical information and good practice advice on successfully implementing personal health budgets.
19 pages
The aim of this guidance document is to assist Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and other relevant bodies who commission NHS services and support, for example NHS England, to meet their duty to ensure people eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC) and Continuing Care for Children (CC) benefit from the “right to have” a personal health budget from 1st October 2014 as announced by Government in October 2013 and provided for in the National Health Service Commissioning Board and Clinical Commissioning Groups (Responsibilities and Standing Rules) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2014.
This document also includes links to the personal health budgets toolkit. This toolkit includes detailed practical information and good practice advice on successfully implementing personal health budgets.
DEBATE RE. CCGs, LHW CONCERNS
Hansard Source (Citation: HC Debate 09 September 2014, c817)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2014-09-09a.817.0&s=healthwatch#g833.2
Hansard Source (Citation: HC Debate 09 September 2014, c817)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2014-09-09a.817.0&s=healthwatch#g833.2
- Norman Lamb - The Minister of State, Department of Health - North Norfolk - Liberal Democrat
- Graham Stringer - Blackley and Broughton - Labour
- Liz Kendall - Shadow Minister (Health) (Care and Older People) - Leicester West - Labour
- Richard Fuller - Bedford - Conservative
- Jeremy Lefroy - Stafford - Conservative
- Andrew Lansley - South Cambridgeshire - Conservative
- Dawn Primarolo - Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means - Bristol South - Labour
- Sarah Wollaston - Totnes - Conservative
NEWS FROM 'KEEP OUR NHS PUBLIC' ... http://islingtonkonp.org.uk
HEALTHWATCH NEWS - 74 – 10th September 2014
Information for Healthwatch aims to pick up DH, CQC, LGA, NHSE, HWE, Monitor and other reports that Local Healthwatch will need to know about and to pass on other information I glean from other sources, including the King's Fund Health Policy and Management Alerts, Social Care Institute for Excellence, National Voices and HAPIA (HEALTHWATCH AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT ASSOCIATION).
GEOFFREY SMITH
Information for Healthwatch aims to pick up DH, CQC, LGA, NHSE, HWE, Monitor and other reports that Local Healthwatch will need to know about and to pass on other information I glean from other sources, including the King's Fund Health Policy and Management Alerts, Social Care Institute for Excellence, National Voices and HAPIA (HEALTHWATCH AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT ASSOCIATION).
GEOFFREY SMITH
- Congenital Heart Disease Review
- The Future of Health and Social Care in England
- NHS and social care bodies take next step towards integrated health and social care for individuals
FORMER MINISTER CALLS FOR NHS LAND TO BE SOLD FOR CARE HOMES
03 September 2014
The former Care Minister, Paul Burstow, will say today that NHS Trusts should sell surplus land to build enough care homes and supported living apartments to meet increasing demand.
The Liberal Democrat MP will make the call as he announces the findings of the think-tank Demos’s year-long Commission on Residential Care, which he chaired.
03 September 2014
The former Care Minister, Paul Burstow, will say today that NHS Trusts should sell surplus land to build enough care homes and supported living apartments to meet increasing demand.
The Liberal Democrat MP will make the call as he announces the findings of the think-tank Demos’s year-long Commission on Residential Care, which he chaired.
MANDATORY, CONTRACTUAL FOOD STANDARDS FOR HOSPITALS
The Department of Health - 29 August 2014
The NHS will have mandatory food standards and hospitals will be ranked on food quality as part of a wide-ranging drive to raise standards of hospital food across the country.
The Department of Health - 29 August 2014
The NHS will have mandatory food standards and hospitals will be ranked on food quality as part of a wide-ranging drive to raise standards of hospital food across the country.
- Mandatory food standards in the NHS contract for the first time
- Hospitals rated for food quality on NHS Choices
