Chief Executive Bulletin Issue 249, 17 December 2004

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Chief Executive Bulletin

10 - 17 December 2004, Issue 249

Contents:

NHS and social care interest
1. Supporting Local Delivery
2. 2004/004: LAC(2004) 28 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Grant Circular 2005/06

NHS interest
3. Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 - Duty to Promote Race Equality
4. Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000: Qualified person for purposes of S36 exemption ('Prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs')
5. Making Better Use of the Pharmacy Workforce
6. Salaried Primary Dental Care Services (SPDCS) review consultation

Social care interest
7. Proposed changes to residential care charges from 4 April 2005

Further items of interest
8. Beyond A Major Incident
9. Increases in NHS-funded nursing care bands for 2005/6
10. Practice Based Commissioning guidance
11. Guidelines on failsafe actions for the follow-up of cervical cytology reports - NHSCSP Publication No 21
12. HL v UK (the 'Bournewood' judgment)
13. Joint working to deliver Supporting People
14. Better information, better choices, better health
15. Guidance supporting PCTs to implement the recommendations of the review of out-of-hours services relating to the supply of medicines
16. The statistical bulletin 2004/22: In-patients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983 and other legislation, England: 1993-94 to 2003-4
17. MEDICAL DEVICE ALERT - MDA/2004/53
18. MEDICAL DEVICE ALERT - MDA/2004/54

NHS and social care interest

1. Supporting Local Delivery (Gateway reference 4153)
Supporting Local Delivery describes the national support that will be provided to help local agencies implement the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services, and identifies how the NSF fits into the Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme.
Read Supporting Local Delivery >

2. 2004/004: LAC(2004) 28 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Grant Circular 2005/06 (Gateway reference 4293)
There will again be significant increases in Local Authority CAMHS funding for 2005/6, which should be spent in accordance with agreed local joint arrangements. The circular lists individual authority allocations and gives guidance on priorities for service development.
Read the circular >

NHS interest

3. Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 - Duty to Promote Race Equality (Gateway reference 4305)
NHS organisations have a statutory duty to promote race equality. NHS organisations must review and consult on their current Race Equality Schemes and to be ready to publish a new three-year scheme by May 2005. Read further information >

4. Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000: Qualified person for purposes of S36 exemption ('Prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs') (Gateway reference 4306)
When the FOI Act comes fully into force on 1 January 2005, all public authorities listed in Schedule 1 will be covered by its provisions. An individual must be appointed for each public authority as the 'qualified person' to take ultimate responsibility for deciding whether the S36 exemption may legitimately be applied to a specific request for information received by the authority.
This document authorises the senior person in charge of each of the bodies listed to act as qualified person. Read the document >
For further information on Freedom of Information legislation, please visit www.foi.nhs.uk

5. Making Better Use of the Pharmacy Workforce (Gateway reference 4043)
Consultation has begun on proposals for more flexible use of the pharmacy workforce. Making Better Use of the Pharmacy Workforce follows up initial proposals in A Vision for Pharmacy in the New NHS, the overall strategy for improving NHS pharmacy services.
Read the consultation paper >
Responses are requested by 11 March 2005. Contact mpigsupport@dh.gsi.gov.uk

6. Salaried Primary Dental Care Services (SPDCS) review consultation (Gateway reference 4152)
The consultation paper, Creating the Future: Modernising Careers for Salaried Dentists in Primary Care, and the review response proforma are available. Read the documents >
Consultation closes 31 March 2005. The proposals relate to the education, roles and career pathways of salaried dentists, and clinical leadership and principles supporting the pay and grading of salaried primary care dentists, both generalists and specialists.

Social care interest

7. Proposed changes to residential care charges from 4 April 2005 (Gateway reference 4262)
The Department of Health has published a consultation paper advising the Local Government Association, councils with social services responsibilities, care trusts and other interested parties of the proposed changes to the system for residential care charges to be made in April 2005. A consultation on the proposed changes will take place between 16 December 2004 and 3 February 2005. Read the consultation paper >

Further items of interest

8. Beyond A Major Incident (Gateway reference 4064)
Guidance is available for all NHS organisations, including foundation trusts, on the development of plans to deal with those disruptive challenges where the scale is beyond current major incident plans. Read the guidance >

9. Increases in NHS-funded nursing care bands for 2005/6 (Gateway reference 4303)
Ministers have announced increases to the bands of NHS-funded nursing care. From 1 April 2005, for eligible care home residents the high band increases from £125 to £129 per week, medium band increases from £77.50 to £80 per week. The low band remains at £40 per week. Contact opdenquiries@dh.gsi.gov.uk
More information will be available at
www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/OrganisationPolicy/IntegratedCare/NHSFundedNursingCare/fs/en

10. Practice Based Commissioning guidance (Gateway reference 4301)
Published by the Department of Health, this guidance explains how the potential of Practice Based Commissioning can be realised by PCTs and practices working in partnership. The department's aspiration is that all practices are involved in Practice Based Commissioning by 2008.
Read the guidance >

11. Guidelines on failsafe actions for the follow-up of cervical cytology reports - NHSCSP Publication No 21 (Gateway reference 3800)
This new guidance is designed to ensure that reasonable and effective failsafe measures are applied consistently across the NHS Cervical Screening Programme while avoiding unnecessary duplication of administrative effort. It updates and replaces the 1992 guidance. More at www.cancerscreening.nhs.uk/cervical/publications/nhscsp21.html

12. HL v UK (the 'Bournewood' judgment) (Gateway reference 4269)
This European Court of Human Rights judgment may have implications for NHS trusts admitting patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment. Interim advice for NHS bodies and local authorities on the judgment and steps they can take in response is now available.
Read the advice >

13. Joint working to deliver Supporting People (Gateway reference 4297)
A letter from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Department of Health setting out the expected joint working between local authority Supporting People teams and PCTs. The letter clarifies PCTs' role in ensuring that the Supporting People programme of housing support delivers health improvements. Read the letter >

14. Better information, better choices, better health (Gateway reference 4251)
The strategy provides a framework for a consistent, coherent approach to develop and use information for healthcare staff and the public. Please contact Sarah Roache on 0113 254 6106 or send queries to informationforchoice@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Copies are available from doh@prolog.uk.com
Read the strategy document >

15. Guidance supporting PCTs to implement the recommendations of the review of out-of-hours services relating to the supply of medicines (Gateway reference 4107)
The guidance, plus details of a conference to be held in January to provide further support to PCTs, is available at
www.out-of-hours.info/documents.php

16. The statistical bulletin 2004/22: Inpatients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act 1983 and other legislation, England: 1993-94 to 2003-4 (Gateway reference 4298)
This bulletin is available from www.publications.doh.gov.uk/public/sb0422.htm
Limited hard copies are available from Kevin Downey, 020 7972 5548.

17. MEDICAL DEVICE ALERT - MDA/2004/53 (Gateway reference 4294)
Administration sets for use with Graseby 500, 505 and AVI volumetric infusion pump systems.
This Medical Device Alert was issued 6 December 2004 to NHS trusts for immediate action.
Further information can be found at www.mhra.gov.uk

18. MEDICAL DEVICE ALERT - MDA/2004/54 (Gateway reference 4295)
Endovascular delivery and exchange systems for Amplatzer® cardiac occluders (ASD, VSD, PFO, PDA).
This Medical Device Alert was issued 9 December 2004 to NHS trusts for immediate action.
Further information can be found at www.mhra.gov.uk

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