Chief Executive Bulletin: 29 September - 5 October 2000 Issue 35

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Hard copy versions of these publications can be ordered from the NHS Responseline 08701 555 455. Contents: NHS interest 1. Human resources performance framework 2. NHS zero tolerance zone campaign: Tackling Violence In Primary Care, Ambulance, Mental Health, And Community Settings 3. Primary Care Trust Executive Committees (Membership) (No 2) Directions 2000 4. Review body evidence 2001 NHS interest 1. Human resources performance framework 4/10/00 - HSC 2000/30 This national Human Resources Performance Framework (HRPF), foreshadowed in the NHS Plan, is intended to support the Service in measuring and maintaining progress on the three strategic aims of Working Together - Securing a Quality Workforce for the NHS, to: ensure that the NHS has a quality workforce, in the right numbers, with the right skills, and diversity, organised in the right way, to deliver the Government's service objectives for health and social care; demonstrate that the NHS is improving the quality of working life for staff; address the management capacity and capability required to deliver the HR agenda and associated programme of change. These strategic aims are critical to the Government's plans for modernising the NHS. The HSC should be read in conjunction with Human Resources Performance Framework and Improving Working Lives Standard which set out the targets. Link to HSC 2000/30 Links to associated documents: Human Resources Performance Framework (paper copy ref. 22469 available from 12/10/00) www.doh.gov.uk/hrstrat Improving Working Lives Standard (paper copy ref. 22470 avaialble from 12/10/00) www.doh.gov.uk/iwl Working Together: Staff Involvement Self-Assessment Tool (paper copy ref. 21433) www.doh.gov.uk/nhsexec/staffinv.htm Copies of the HSC are being mailed 5/10/00 to NHS CEs and HA directors of personnel. 2. NHS zero tolerance zone campaign: Tackling Violence In Primary Care, Ambulance, Mental Health, And Community Settings The NHS zero tolerance zone campaign and resource pack, 'We don't have to take this' were launched in October 1999 with the intention that it would raise awareness with the public that violence in the NHS will be not be tolerated and to give a pledge to staff that violence is being tackled. The resource pack was also intended as a practical tool to help managers meet the Working Together targets for reducing violence by 20% by 2001 and by 30% by 2003. More recently, you will have seen in the NHS Plan that all NHS employers are to be assessed against performance targets and for the first time, a new Improving Working Lives standard. In September 1998 the NHS Executive carried out a survey of sickness absence, accidents and violence of all NHS Trusts in England which showed that staff working in mental health, community and ambulance services, were at a greater risk of facing violence at work than staff working in other health care settings. As part of the continuing NHS zero tolerance zone campaign, the NHS Executive has developed further resource sheets to support staff working in these settings and to take account of the particular needs of primary care practitioners. The enclosed Resource pack update contains: Managing Violence in Mental Health; Managing Violence in the Community; Managing Violence in Ambulance Trusts ; Primary Care - Preventing Violence and Abuse to GPs and their staff; and Case Studies and Examples of Good Practice - Part II. All zero tolerance information has been produced with advice from staff in the NHS, professional organisations and staff side representatives, and is also available on the NHS.UK website www.nhs.uk/zerotolerance. Link to covering letter (Hard copies, ref. 22238, will be mailed shortly to NHS Chairs, CEs & directors of personnel, PCG/Ts, GP practices. Ambulance Trusts and GPs will receive copies of the letter and guidance relevant to their settings) 3. Primary Care Trust Executive Committees (Membership) (No 2) Directions 2000 A revision to the Primary Care Trust Executive Committees (Membership) (No 2) Directions 2000, made on 10 February will come into force on 1 October 2000. The Directions have been revised to clarify and widen the scope for membership of the Executive Committee. These changes clarify that health care professionals who provide services to persons who have become a PCT's responsibility through local delegation arrangements are eligible for membership of the Committee (article 1(3)); and strengthen representation by public health professionals (article 2(3)(c) and the definition of "public health member" in article 1(2)). The revised directions also clarify that where a person who has been appointed as a professional member ceases to provide services to the PCT's population, their office as a member of the Committee is terminated immediately (article 3(3)). Link to PCT Website: http://www.doh.gov.uk/pricare/pcts.htm Queries: ann.thorpe@doh.gsi.gov.uk or tel: 0113 2545043 Details have been sent to PCTs and HA primary care leads. 4. Review body evidence 2001 The Health Departments evidence to the independent Pay Review Bodies - Doctors' and Dentists' Review Body (DDRB) and Nursing Staff, Midwives, Health Visitors and Professions Allied to Medicine (NPRB) was published on 18 September 2000. A copy of the evidence to the DDRB and NPRB can be found on the internet at www.doh.gov.uk/reviewbodies 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 - ©2000 Back to Chief Executive's Bulletin Home Page

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