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Issue 4: 25 February to 2 March 2000 Through Chief Executive Bulletin we have been attempting to manage and reduce the volume of mail sent to you personally. The Department of Health is now reviewing all its communications with NHS and Social Services audiences which will mean some changes not only in what we send you but how we send it. From now on the main changes are: - the number of circulars (HSCs, LACs, LASSLs) will be greatly reduced and used only for urgent and high priority messages. You will be notified of publication of these on the internet directly by e-mail*; we will try to distribute material for information and good practice directly to the most appropriate people in your organisation by the most appropriate means. *In the short term we will continue to send hard copy versions to those without access to e-mail but we intend to move quickly to electronic systems. If you have an e-mail address but have only received a paper copy of this bulletin, send an e-mail to: email-addresses@doh.gsi.gov.uk to be added to the electronic distribution list. The Chief Executive Bulletin is sent to NHS and Council Chief Executives and Directors of Social Services. This marks the beginning of a change towards electronic format becoming the principle form of communication. As we make changes over the coming weeks we hope it will not only reduce the amount of material we send out but that it will improve your and your colleagues' access to information when you want it. If you have any difficulties or would like to comment on these plans please let Philip Jepson know by e-mail to pjepson@doh.gsi.gov.uk or by writing to Communications Directorate, Department of Health, Room 3N34A, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE or fax them to 0113 254 5800 Hard copy versions of these publications can be ordered from the NHS Responseline 08701 555 455. NHS/Social Care interest LAC(2000)6: PROMOTING INDEPENDENCE: PARTNERSHIP, PREVENTION AND CARERS GRANTS - CONDITIONS AND ALLOCATIONS 2000/2001 Summary 1. This letter: draws the attention of local authorities to the draft Local Government Special Grant Reports for: Promoting Independence: Partnership Grant (No.56) Promoting Independence: Prevention Grant (No.57) Promoting Independence: Carers Grant (No.58) which will be laid before Parliament shortly; sets out guidance for local authorities on the conditions which (subject to Parliamentary approval and possible changes of a drafting nature) will be attached to the new grants for 2000/2001); and confirms each Council's allocation for each of the grants for 2000/2001. HSC 2000/005: LAC (2000)5 Primary Care trusts and Group Allowances Summary This guidance sets out the allowances payable to or for: Chairs and Board Members of Primary Care Groups; Chairs and non-executive members of Primary Care Trust Boards ; PCT Executive Committee Chairs and Professional Members It also provides a framework for the remuneration of Chief Executives and other senior managers who support the work of PCGs or PCTs. These allowances or guidance on remuneration apply from 1 April 2000. This circular and the attached document replaces HSC 1998/190. Before then PCTs which have been established should make payments to PCT non-executives and Executive Committee members on the basis of the principles embodied in this framework. From 1 April 2000 some payments to GMS GPs on PCGs and PCTs will be pensionable. Action Chief Executives of Health Authorities, Primary Care Groups and NHS Trusts, Social Services Directors and Primary Care Trust Chairs (or leaders if the PCT is in shadow form); - should bring this Circular and attached guidance to the attention of their staff and relevant members - are expected to encourage relevant staff to participate in PCGs and PCTs and to facilitate such involvement. Chief Executives of Health Authorities and PCTs should ensure that the level of PCG and PCT allowances and arrangements for their payment comply with this circular from 1 April 2000 ensure that this guidance is made available to all PCG Board and prospective PCT Board and Executive Committee members. ensure that shadow PCT Chairs and PCT Executive Committee Chairs, once appointed are aware of this guidance and ensure that arrangements for PCT Chairs, Board and Executive Committee Members are to be paid in accordance with this guidance. NHS interest OUTCOMES FOR THE END OF YEAR 1 OF THE PRE-REGISTRATION NURSE EDUCATION PROGRAMME This letter advises that the recently published UKCC outcomes for the end of the first year of the pre-registration nursing programme are endorsed by the NHS Executive as helping to meet its commitment to greater consistency in the knowledge and skills that students have at the end of their first year of training. It also seeks views on the development of outcomes for years 2 and 3. Advance Letter (MD) 1/00 Issued Monday 6th March This letter authorises changes with effect from 1 April 2000 in the national pay and conditions of service of hospital medical and dental staff and doctors in public health medicine and the community health service. The revised national rates and charges in the replacement pages attached to this Advance Letter replace those notified in AL (MD) 1/99 and will take effect from 1 April 2000. Advance Letter (MD)2/00 Issued Monday 6th March This letter supersedes AL (MD) 2/99 and sets out the revised rates payable for items of service set out in the Supplement to the Terms and Conditions of Service for Doctors in Public Health Medicine and the Community Health Service. The new rates come into effect from 1 July 2000 and are attached to this letter in the form of replacement pages which should be incorporated in the Public Health and Community Health Services Handbook. MISC (2000)13: GUIDANCE ON GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE AND CLINICAL TRIALS IN THE NHS Summary The NHS has responsibilities for the clinical research it conducts or hosts. This guidance is concerned with management of clinical trials; further guidance on the governance of research in general will be issued at a later date. The MRC guidelines are available at its website at http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Clinical_trials/ctg.html DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY CARE GROUPS I am writing to thank you for the help and support you have already provided in taking forward our aim of modernising the NHS, to deliver better services to patients. I am also writing to explain, further to my letter of 18 May last year, how Health Authorities should now be fostering and supporting the development of their local Primary Care Groups. Year 2000 - Realising the Benefits Summary I wrote to you in January about the 'Year 2000 Date Change' and made reference to realising the benefits from the work done in successfully preparing for the millennium date change. The Year 2000 Team has produced a document 'Year 2000: Realising the Benefits', which is now posted on the NHSnet web site at http://nww.imc.exec.nhs.uk/2000/. This document gives examples of the benefits from Year 2000 work, suggests ways in which they can be achieved and shows how this can contribute to Controls Assurance. Social Services Interest CI (2000)3: REVIEW OF SOCIAL WORK IN THE HIGH SECURITY HOSPITALS (ASHWORTH, BROADMOOR, RAMPTON) In April 1999, at the request of the Secretary of State, I set up a group to review the provision of a social work service in the three high security hospitals in England, and to make recommendations. That group, chaired by Bob Lewis, formerly Director of Social Services in Stockport and a Past President of the ADSS, has now submitted its report. Two copies are enclosed. Ministers have indicated their acceptance of the report's recommendations. However, they wish to hear the views, especially of those who will be directly affected by the recommendations, as to how best they may be implemented. The report is also to be found on the Department of Health web site at: www.doh.gov.uk/scg/hshrevw.htm MISC (2000)18: MODERNISING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, MENTAL HEALTH GRANT 2000/2001 Summary This letter sets the conditions for local authorities' spend of the 2000/2001 allocation of the Mental Health Grant (MHG), and describes the administrative arrangements for paying and accounting for the MHG. Chief Executive Bulletin - 18 to 24 February 2000

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