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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 The publication What To Do If You're Worried A Child Is Being Abused has been developed to assist practitioners to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. It also contains an appendix covering the legal issues affecting exchange of information. It is targeted at all those who have contact with children and their families in their work. Chief executives are asked to ensure that the copies they receive are distributed to staff, with the full booklet issued to all children's services social workers and all child protection named and designated professionals, with the summary distributed to all other relevant staff. The summary has already been sent separately to all doctors and nurses. Further copies of the booklet can be downloaded at www.doh.gov.uk/safeguardingchildren/index.htm or obtained in hard copy from tel: 08701 555455 Further information is available from the Victoria Climbié Inquiry response team on 020 7972 4977 2. Health and education strategic partnerships - (For action by SHA chief executives) The Strategic Learning and Research Advisory Group for health and social care (StLaR) have placed a letter on the web, on behalf of all StLaR members, to the health and social care and education sectors recommending the establishment of local health and education strategic partnerships (HESPs). Details at www.doh.gov.uk/hrinthenhs/learning/section4a/hespsletter.htm
Contact: Joan Arnott on joan.arnott@doh.gsi.gov.uk 3. Overview and scrutiny of health Guidance to support the local authority overview and scrutiny powers
to review health services is at This outlines the legal powers for local authority overview and scrutiny committees, the duties on the NHS to support those powers and offers good practice guidance on undertaking the scrutiny process in the context of health and health services. A guidance note is also included which gives advice on undertaking scrutiny of substantial changes to health services, prior to the abolition of community health councils. Contact: Meredith Vivian at meredith.vivian@doh.gsi.gov.uk 4. Counter fraud and security management On 1 April 2003, The Counter Fraud and Security Management Service (CFSMS) replaced the NHS Counter Fraud Service. The CFSMS now has responsibility for all policy and operational matters relating to the prevention, detection and investigation of fraud and corruption, and the management of security in the NHS. Details at www.cfsms.nhs.uk NHS interest The health secretary Alan Milburn announced today (22 May) details of
the location of 81 pieces of imaging equipment announced in The NHS
Plan as well as a further £165 million investment programme
in new cancer equipment. Details at: www.doh.gov.uk/cancer/index.htm Contact: Simone Bayes on 020 7972 4765 or at simone.bayes@doh.gsi.gov.uk 6. Consultant contract - draft model A draft model contract for consultants, developed in line with the June 2002 Framework Agreement, was published on 20 May. This is a working draft, but should be sufficiently detailed to give NHS employers and consultants clear indication of what the contract and associated terms and conditions would involve to support local decisions about how to implement the new framework of consultant rewards and incentives. In view of the delay in publishing the model, we are now asking NHS organisations to firm up plans by 16 June. For further information about the model contract please see www.doh.gov.uk/consultantframework/index.htm. 7. Approval of nurse, midwife and health visitor consultant posts - PL CNO (2003)5 Health minister John Hutton announced at the RCN congress (30 April) that he had asked the chief nursing officer Sarah Mullally to make arrangements to relax the approval process for new nurse, midwife and health visitor consultant posts. He also asked for greater responsibility to be devolved to local organisations so that more nurse consultant posts could be approved. Consequently, the April 2003 tranche of posts will be the last approved under the current system. In future, NHS bodies wishing to establish posts will be permitted to do so with the agreement of their local StHA. Click
here for letter Contact: Rebecca Wallace at rebecca.wallace@doh.gsi.gov.uk or on 0113 254 6073 8. Extension of The NHS Plan cancelled operations guarantee - change to quarterly data return The Planning and Priorities Framework extended The NHS Plan cancelled operations guarantee stating "from 1 April 2003 this will apply to patients cancelled at 'the last minute' (and not just those cancelled 'on the day of surgery')." This means that from 1 April 2003 NHS trusts do not need to submit data on the number of patients who are cancelled by the hospital for non-clinical reasons on the day of surgery in the quarterly monitoring of cancelled operations (QMCO) data return. Further details on cancelled operations data are at http://nww.doh.nhsweb.nhs.uk/hospitalactivity/ Contact: Rachel Swallow at rachel.swallow@doh.gsi.gov.uk or on 0113 254 5233 9. NHS decontamination road shows Following the road shows held in Spring 2001, a second series of one-day conferences are planned for July 2003 to discuss the Department of Health's plans for improving decontamination. There will be an opportunity to discuss all aspects of sterile supply. Chief executives are invited to attend or send a representative. Details and booking forms are at www.doh.gov.uk/cebulletin/decontamination.htm Contact: Ed Corbett on 0113 205 1844 Social care interest 10. Revised direct payments regulations The revised regulations make it mandatory for councils to offer direct payments to all eligible clients from 8 April 2003. To support this health secretary Alan Milburn announced a £9 million development fund (£3m a year for three years) to establish and strengthen support services throughout the country. Grant applications are currently being invited from voluntary organisations in partnership with local councils. Closing date for receipt of applications is 19 June 2003, late applications will not be accepted. Details and application forms are at www.doh.gov.uk/directpayments/ Contact: Jamilla Rogers-Wright on 020 7972 4991 for a Word97 disc version 11. Delayed discharges grant - indicative allocations for 2003/2004 The £50million grant for 2003/2004 provides funds to local authorities to expand services for older people and tackle delayed hospital discharge. It is being paid as a Section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and will be debated in parliament before the summer recess. Payments will be made as soon as possible thereafter. Information about the grant and a table of indicative allocations for
each local authority is at Contact: Hannah Burdekin on 020 7972 4358 or at hannah.burdekin@doh.gsi.gov.uk or Anne McDonald on 020 7972 4098 or at anne.mcdonald@doh.gsi.gov.uk Further items of interest 12. Pay for doctors and dentists 2003/2004 On Monday 19 May the Thirty Second Report 2003 of the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists Remuneration was published. The report and the ministerial statement accepting the review body pay recommendations in full and without staging, from 1 April 2003, is at www.doh.gov.uk/reviewbodies/ Advance letters giving details of the revised pay, fees and allowances payable to those staff covered by this report, who are employed in the NHS on national terms and conditions, will be available shortly at www.info.doh.gov.uk/doh/coin4.nsf/Circulars?ReadForm 13. Phased roll out of recombinant clotting factors
- A working group has been established by the Department of Health to
advise on the phased introduction of recombinant clotting factors for
the treatment of haemophilia patients. Details at www.doh.gov.uk/blood/rcfwg/
14. Children's social services core information requirements - Version 3 has been published. Details at www.doh.gov.uk/qualityprotects/info/publications/coreinformationreq.htm 15. NHS chief executives leadership lesson at Liverpool City Council on 19 June 2003. Details available from Whitehall & Industry Group at ko@wig.co.uk or on 020 7222 1166 16. Medical device alert - MDA/2003/014: Static MRI scanners with quench vent pipes was issued on 9 May 2003 to NHS trusts for action. Details at http://devices.mhra.gov.uk
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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