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Coverage of the Queen’s speech, including proposals for care reform, NHS integration policy plans, and the rest of today’s news.

Coverage of the Queen’s speech, including proposals for care reform, NHS integration policy plans, and the rest of today’s news.

This report summarises the learning from a project which aimed to strengthen the evidence base for self-directed support and how gaps might be addressed through co-production. The gaps identified centred around choice; systems and infrastructure; barriers; equality; roles; drivers and principles.

• Report
• Summary report
• IRISS - projects

Clinical commissioning groups will be rated four times a year on their performance and annually on their organisational capability, under a draft assurance regime to be published today.

The direct specialised commissioning function of NHS England is supported by a devolved clinical leadership model. CRGs covering all prescribed specialised services draw membership from each of the geographical areas covered by the twelve senates. They are responsible for preparing national specialised service strategy and developing specialised service contract products such as specifications and policies. These webpages provide further information about the national programmes of care and CRGs.

• Internal medicine
• Cancer and blood
• Mental health
• Trauma
• Women and children
• NHS England - news

An acute provider and a community health trust are likely to compete to be the lead provider of services for the frail elderly under planned changes to contracting in Oxfordshire.

There is an “alarming variation” across the country in the numbers of asthma patients who are admitted to hospitals after suffering from an asthma attack, a charity has said.

Blaming local commissioners for the failure of NHS 111 in some parts of the country is a “bit rich”, the president of NHS Clinical Commissioners has told HSJ.

This document provides a summary of the responses received to a consultation on ways to support and develop the public health workforce. The original consultation sought views on recruitment and retention; the role of local education and training boards; and ways to strengthen academic public health and the public health information and intelligence function.

• Summary of responses
• Original consultation
• Impact assessment
• Department of Health - consultations

This publication outlines the government response to the consultation on market oversight in adult social care. The consultation looked at a proposal for a system of checks on the finances of the largest care companies to give an early warning of potential problems, and to challenge financial systems which could be unsustainable or reduce quality.

• Government response
• Original consultation
• Impact assessment
• Department of Health - consultations

This guide explains organisations in the healthcare system and how they work together. The accountability statement explains how decision making works in the NHS and fulfils the commitment set out in principle 7 of the NHS constitution.

• Guide
• Department of Health - news

This document provides an overview of the performance to date of the drugs and alcohol recovery PbR pilots. It covers 11 months from the start of the PbR pilots in April 2012 to the latest data available at the end of February 2013.

• Report
• Department of Health - news

This plan tracked the milestones of the health and care transition programme. It provided transition boards with an overview of the implementation of the reforms, outlined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, from April 2012 to 31st March 2013, when the programme closed.

• Plan
• Department of Health - news

The Queen’s speech is expected to include new legislation to consolidate the framework of social care law; introduce important new rights for disabled people and carers; and implement recommendations made by the Dilnot Commission on long-term care funding. In anticipation of the bill’s publication, this briefing note sets out the changes that Carers UK have called for when the bill is published later this month.

• Briefing
• Carers UK - publications

The government has been heavily trailing its proposed legislation on social care reform and integration, the latest on the NHS 111 developments, and the rest of today’s news.

The government has been heavily trailing its proposed legislation on social care reform and integration, the latest on the NHS 111 developments, and the rest of today’s news.

The government has been heavily trailing its proposed legislation on social care reform and integration, the latest on the NHS 111 developments, and the rest of today’s news.

Trusts involved in a controversial pathology services reconfiguration are to consult staff on the changes later this month, amid union claims that major logistical issues surrounding the project remain unresolved.

This report was commissioned as part of a review of HIV services in London and the aim was to gather data from patients to better understand patterns of service use and what they value in HIV services. The findings will be used to develop the future of HIV services in London and how they can be improved to meet the current and future challenges of HIV care.

• Report
• Sigma Research - publications

This report develops an approach to engaging healthcare boards in the meaningful use of risk management to effectively govern complex organisations such as hospitals and other healthcare bodies. It provides a conceptual framework for the governance of risk, and poses a series of key questions for boards to ask of themselves. 

• Report
• GGI - news