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Chief Executive Bulletin
Contents: NHS and social care interest NHS interest Social care interest Further items of interest NHS and social care interest 1. Chief Executive's Sounding Board Sir Nigel Crisp is interested in nominations from Chief Executives to join his Sounding Board. The purpose of the Board is to provide a chief executive's perspective on a range of issues affecting the wider chief executives' community. Membership rotates to give more opportunities for people to contribute. Nine of the NHS CEs are standing down this month and we are looking for replacements. The local authority and social services ones are continuing. If you are interested in nominating yourself or a colleague for Sounding
Board membership, or would like to know more about the Board's work, please
contact kate.barnard@doh.gsi.gov.uk NHS interest 2. Junior doctors action teams - mainstreaming into strategic health authorities Functions formerly performed by regional junior doctors action teams were mainstreamed into strategic health authorities on 1 April 2003. It is important to note that responsibilities now include appropriate participation in the appeals mechanism described in the terms and conditions of service, as well as in the twice-yearly monitoring returns. It is essential that these tasks are carried out so that the NHS can meet its contractual responsibilities to junior doctors. Department of Health director of HR Andrew Foster wrote to the service in February explaining the necessary action. The letter is at www.doh.gov.uk/juniordoctors/ Contact: Mike Beattie on 0113 254 5711 or at mike.beattie@doh.gsi.gov.uk 3. Thrombolysis targets - review document The Department of Health is publishing a review of the CHD National Service Framework thrombolysis targets. This is to support better care for patients suffering from acute heart attacks and delivery of the PPF (Planning and Priorities Framework) 60 minute call to needle time thrombolysis targets set for 2003-2006. The document:
The document is at www.doh.gov.uk/heart/thrombolysis/review/ 4. Screening for haemoglobinopathies The NHS Plan set out a commitment to new and effective screening programmes for women and children including a new national linked antenatal and neonatal programme for haemoglobinopathies. A development programme is in place and is consulting on a number of processes for the screening of newborn babies for sickle cell disorders and women for sickle cell disorders and thalassaemia in the antenatal period. For details of the consultation go to www.kcl-phs.org.uk/haemscreening and click on 'Consultation' at the bottom left of the page. Contact: josephine.taylor@doh.gsi.gov.uk 5. Disclosure of salary information by NHS senior staff A letter dated 19 June from Dr Nick Clarke deputy head of NHS Pay Branch to all chairs explaining that the disclosure of information on remuneration in annual accounts should be monitored is at www.doh.gov.uk/cebulletin/disclosure190603.htm Chairs are asked to ensure that all annual accounts are monitored for disclosure of information on remuneration. If there are instances where the information is not disclosed in September 2003 and future sets of accounts, the Department of Health needs to be notified four weeks in advance of publication of the accounts. Contact: David Moody on 0113 254 5734 or david.moody@doh.gsi.gov.uk 6. New salary scales for all non-medical staff for 2003-2004 Agreement has been reached on new national salary scales for all non-medical staff for 2003-2004. The advance letters containing full details of the increases will be published on 19 June 2003 and are available on the COIN web site at www.doh.gov.uk/publications/coinh.html Employers are asked to make arrangements to implement the new pay scales in the advance letters so that staff receive their increased salaries as quickly as possible. All payments should be backdated to 1 April 2003. This programme, sponsored by Sir Nigel Crisp, which seeks to attract successful leaders into the NHS, is preparing to bring in its second group of external recruits. The NHS Leadership Centre is inviting expressions of interest from NHS organisations who would like to host one of the 56 participants. The Leadership Centre contributes £20,000 towards salary costs, and provides a comprehensive development programme for all participants. Invitation packs are being sent to all chief executives on 20 June. Enquiries to Simon Bird programme lead on 020 7592 1027 or simon.bird@doh.gsi.gov.uk Social care interest Further items of interest 8. Cabinet Office draft Civil Contingencies Bill -
consultation period 9. A Practical Guide for Disabled People or Carers - the Department of Health publication A Practical Guide for Disabled People or Carers has been revised and updated. It is available at www.doh.gov.uk/disabledguide/ or free from doh@prolog.uk.com 10. MINAP - audit of patient care following a heart
attack 11. Delivering the HR in the NHS Plan is the DH annual report on progress with implementing the HR in the NHS Plan. Details at www.doh.gov.uk/hrinthenhsplan/index.htm 12. Dealing with Disaster - the Cabinet Office has published an interim revision of this document which is at www.ukresilience.info/contingencies/dwd/index.htm 13. New pension entitlement for foster carers - help to protect basic state pension entitlement and bereavement benefits has now been extended to foster carers. Details at www.dwp.gov.uk/mediacentre/pressreleases/2003/march/pens1703-carers.asp 14. New funding system for social work students - from 2004/5 a new system of funding will be introduced for social work students to support the creation of quality learning environments in practice agencies. For further details visit www.doh.gov.uk/swqualification/new.htm and scroll to the bottom of the page. 15. New delegated limits for capital investment -
transfer of approval responsibility to SHAs - this guidance sets out
revised delegated limits for the approval of NHS capital investments and
formally transfers responsibility for approving trust and PCT business
cases from DsHSC to SHAs. Details at www.doh.gov.uk/delegatedlimits/
The documents in this bulletin are Crown copyright but may be reproduced by NHS and local authority staff without formal permission or charge for personal or in-house use - ©2003
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