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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. Transfer of social services policy for children and teenage pregnancy to DfES On Friday 13 June, the Prime Minister appointed Margaret Hodge as the minister for children, with wide ranging responsibilities for children's policy issues. Responsibility for social services policy for children and for teenage pregnancy policy was transferred from the Department of Health to the Department for Education and Skills. We are working with DfES to look at how best to develop the continuing links that will be needed between the two departments, including with child health policy, and on the forthcoming national service framework, as well as handling the interface issues with adult social care policy. In the meantime, DH staff working on children's social care and teenage pregnancy continue to have responsibility for those areas of work. NHS interest 2. Implementation of new general medical services contract GPs have voted to accept a new general medical services (GMS) contract. PCTs need to start preparing now to ensure the contract is fully implemented in all GMS practices from April 2004, with some elements in place beforehand. A letter to PCT chief executives sets out what the contract means for PCTs. It is at www.doh.gov.uk/gmscontract/implementation.htm Contact Susan Devlin on 0113 254 6881 or gmscontract@doh.gsi.gov.uk The genetics white paper, Our inheritance, our future - realising the potential of genetics in the NHS, was launched on 24 June 2003. It offers a vision of how patients could benefit in future from advances in genetics and sets out a comprehensive plan for preparing the NHS, including a £50 million investment of new money. NHS staff will need to keep abreast of developments in genetics and how they might adapt their own services to make use of them. The white paper and executive summary are at www.doh.gov.uk/genetics/whitepaper.htm Contact: geneticswhitepaper@doh.gsi.gov.uk 4. Multiple sclerosis specialist nurses - central budget to support implementation of the MS Risk Sharing Scheme 2003-2006 A central budget for improving services for people with MS is available for the period 2003-2006 to support implementation of the MS Risk Sharing Scheme. The central budget will provide additional MS specialist nurses and other nursing support. PCTs and their designated prescribing centres are invited to bid for funding. Further information regarding the application process is at www.doh.gov.uk/cebulletin/msnurse.htm Contact: pat.noons@doh.gsi.gov.uk 0207 972 4200 5. The role of PCTs in relation to learning and research in the new NHS - joint ministerial review (JMR) The JMR is an important opportunity to gather opinion and understanding of the responsibilities of PCTs in supporting learning and research across health care professions and the whole of the NHS. Matrix MHA Research and Consultancy are supporting the review using a two-stage questionnaire which is being sent to a targeted audience of stakeholders, including chief executives, across England, who have been selected based on their involvement with PCTs and/or learning and research. Further information: Helen Jenkins at helen.jenkins@doh.gsi.gov.uk, www.doh.gov.uk/hrinthenhs/learning/section4a/jointminreview.htm and www.matrixrcl.co.uk/survey/ 6. NICE guidelines - infection control, head injury,
preoperative tests
The guidance is at www.nice.org.uk Contact: Martin Teff at the Department of Health on martin.teff@doh.gsi.gov.uk or 0113 254 5972 7. NICE technology appraisals - implementing the guidance Management guidance on how to implement the recommendations in NICE Appraisal No 57, Guidance on the use of patient-education models for diabetes, and NICE Appraisal No 60, Guidance on the use of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion for diabetes is at www.doh.gov.uk/nice/fundingdirections/index.htm Contact: Jaimie Cross on 0113 2545624 or jaimie.cross@doh.gsi.gov.uk 8. Draft chaplaincy guidance - listening exercise The draft chaplaincy guidance NHS Chaplaincy: meeting the religious and spiritual needs of patients and staff is now open to a listening exercise. Please submit comments and suggestions by 26 August 2003 to www.doh.gov.uk/chaplain/ The Multi Faith Group for Healthcare Chaplaincy is a permanent body supporting the further development of health care chaplaincy and spiritual health care. 9. Mental Health Review Tribunal - changes to handling complaints and judicial reviews in the MHRT secretariat From 1 July the liaison judge and regional chairmen of the Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT) have agreed that proceedings for judicial review and complaints should be handled by the MHRT Headquarters at Wellington House and not the regional offices. The secretariat will be responsible for co-ordinating a central database for handling complaints and judicial reviews and will manage the process as appropriate. The address for correspondence is Mental Health Review Tribunal Secretariat, Room LG04, Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG. Tel: 020 7972 4577 Fax: 020 7972 4884. Further items of interest 10. Waiting, Booking and Choice - new web pages - a new section of the departmental website has been launched setting out the vision and strategy of the Waiting, Booking and Choice programme. It is at www.doh.gov.uk/waitingbookingchoice/ 11. Dignity at work for lesbian and gay doctors and dentists - from December 2003 it will be illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation in the workplace. Guidelines are at www.gladd.dircon.co.uk/iwl.htm 12. Medicines Management Services Collaborative - fourth wave launched - details and application forms are at www.npc.co.uk/mms/Web_Dev/MMS_Area/Applications.htm or from Richard Seal, Richard.seal@npc.nhs.uk Deadline - 27 August. 13. Chief executive leadership lessons - an audience with the chief executive of Nationwide Building Society, Swindon, 24 September 2003. Further details from Whitehall & Industry Group at ko@wig.co.uk or on 020 7222 1166 14. Fire practice note 11 - reducing unwanted fire calls in health care premises - available at www.knowledge.nhsestates.gov.uk
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