Chief Executive Bulletin - 14-20 April 2000 Issue 11
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You can either print copies of documents from the website or order items appearing in the Bulletin from the Responseline 08701 555 455, unless individual items give alternative arrangements. Contents: NHS interest 3. Improving Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Data Quality 1999-2000 4. NHS Smoking Cessation Services 2000/01 5. Primary Care's Role in Capacity Planning Project 6. Work-Life Balance Campaign Conferences 8. Important notice: General Medical Council's Fitness to Practice Committee Decisions 9. Good Practice In Continence Services NHS interest
1. National Plan The Chief Executive is sending a separate e-mail to all Trust and HA chief executives today, to update them on the Modernisation Action Teams and to outline the intensive NHS consultation process which will be starting next week.
2. Sir Alan Langlands' Guidance Letter on Pay for NHS Managers 1999/2000: Compliance Statement - Hugh Taylor's' letter of 19 April 2000 Hugh Taylor emphasises the importance that Ministers attach to Sir Alan's message, and the need for a compliance statement in annual reports for 1999/2000. He advises that they should take a close interest in compliance for 1999/2000 and be able to justify any deviations from the limit set for that year. Ref. Hugh Taylor letter 21566. Will be mailed to NHS Chairs and Directors of Personel 27/4/00. Hard copies available 27/4/00 Sir Alan Langland's letter http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhsexec/alpayletter.htm Ref. 21567.
3. Improving Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Data Quality 1999-2000 All Chief Executives and HES data quality leads in NHS Hospital Trusts in England will soon receive documents for the sign up process for 1999-2000 HES data. HES is produced from the Admitted Patient Care Commissioning Data Set (APC CDS) data sent by Trusts via NWCS and provides the data set from which national information and comparisons are drawn, such as the High Level Performance Indicators and Clinical Indicators. Chief Executives will be required to confirm whether they are content with the APC CDS data supplied to NWCS or have serious concerns about its quality by returning a sign up document to the HES Data Quality team at the Department of Health by 2 June 2000 at the latest. Trusts will have until 17:00 on 23 June 2000 to make any necessary changes and submit final 1999-2000 data to NWCS. The documents are available electronically http://www.doh.gov.uk/hes1.htm. They will be posted to trusts shortly after Easter and will also include Trust specific tables providing a high level assessment of data completeness and quality. The sign up process is supported by Regional Office data quality leads, who are listed in the documentation, and to whom questions should be directed in the first instance.
4. NHS Smoking Cessation Services 2000/01 Updated monitoring guidance has now been made available on the NHSweb at http://nww.doh.nhsweb.nhs.uk/nhssmokingcessation/ as mentioned in issue 6 of the Bulletin of 16 March. Additional service guidance will follow as soon as possible. Ref. 21489. Hard copies available on request.
5. Primary Care's Role in Capacity Planning Project 19/4/00 - Dr Paul Zollinger-Read from the National Patients' Access Team is undertaking a project on the role of Primary Care in capacity planning. This letter seeks the assistance of Chief Executives of Primary Care Groups and Primary Care Trusts in gathering information for the project. Chief Executives are asked to send details of all the current measures that are in action, or being developed in their local health community and any evaluation that has taken place. Examples may include; current work undertaken as intermediate care, priority scoring systems, slot systems, successfully implemented referral protocols or care pathways, exclusion or low priority guidelines and types of primary care provision. For queries, or more details of the project please e-mail Dr Paul Zollinger-Read on PZR3@cs.com. Ref. 21574 Hard copies available
6. Work-Life Balance Campaign Conferences On 9 March the Prime Minister launched the Government's Work-Life Balance campaign. The purpose of the campaign is to encourage employers to go beyond their legal obligations in their own interests and introduce working practices which both benefit the business and enable their employees to balance work and the rest of their lives more successfully. It will complement the Working Lives campaign for the NHS. The conferences are part of a consultation exercise and intended to discuss the business benefits of flexible working policies with businesses, trades unions, voluntary groups and a wide range of other partners. Places at the following conferences are free, on a first come first served basis: Birmingham, Tuesday 2nd May, at the National Motorcycle Museum Bristol, Thursday 11th May, at the Bristol Marriott Hotel Newcastle, Monday 15th May, at the Swallow Hotel, Gosforth Park, Glasgow Friday 19th May, at the Glasgow Thistle Hotel. Further details and application forms are available from the conference organisers on 0208 747 4300 fax 0208 747 4301
Mentioned in Bulletin, issue 10: 7. Advance Letter (GC) 1/2000: Sections 7 to 13 of The General Whitley Council Handbook: Equal Opportunities Agreement 10/4/00 - The General Whitley Council has reached a new agreement on Equal Opportunities which supports the wider modernisation agenda. This supersedes the existing Sections 7 to 13 of its handbook. Agreement http://www.doh.gov.uk/equalopps/index.htm Ref. Letter 21570 GWC Agreement 21571 Will be mailed to NHS Directors of Personnel 26/4/00. Hard copies available 26/4/00
8. Important notice: General Medical Council's Fitness to Practice Committee Decisions: Please note that information regarding the decisions of the GMC's Committee on Professional Performance, Health Committee, Preliminary Proceedings Committee and Professional Conduct Committee, which was previously distributed by Health Service Circular, (the last one being HSC 1999/224) can now be found on the NHS Web at: http://nww.doh.nhsweb.nhs.uk/nhs/gmc.htm This site will be updated on a regular basis. Any queries or requests for further information regarding these decisions should be addressed to the: Committee Section,
9. Good Practice In Continence Services 19/4/00 PL/CMO/2000/2, PL/CNO/2000/5 Identification, assessment, treatment and review are key to the delivery of continence services, as set out in new guidance from the NHS Executive. Embarrassment often means that patients are reluctant to come forward and discuss their continence problems. This is why identification, leading to a comprehensive assessment and initial treatment are important steps in treating incontinence. Comprehensive assessment includes questions about home environment and lifestyle as well as health related issues such as existing medication and continence symptoms. The guidance also offers a range of options for treating continence including general advice to patients and their carers about healthy living, bladder and bowel training regimens, pelvic floor exercises, reviewing existing medication as well as the provision of continence aids. Finally, a review should be carried out to monitor the effectiveness of the treatment and to ensure there is adequate clinical improvement. It is also important that patients are referred, if appropriate to specialist clinical services such as a specialist continence adviser, urologist, gynaecologist or geriatrician. Organisationally, the guidance suggests that continence services should be integrated across primary care, community health services and specialist services to be most effective. The guidance is available at http://www.doh.gov.uk/continenceservices.htm
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