Guidance on preparation of local IM&T plans for 2008/09 (20th December 2007)
Guidance for the production of an information management and technology plan for the local health community in support of national and local service objectives. National expectations for the NHS are set out building on the existing investment in NPfIT and to strengthen local information and data management.
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Privacy and Dignity: the elimination of mixed sex accommodation (December 2007)
This guidance outlines 11 key principles to support the achievement of good physical separation of the sexes in hospital accommodation. It includes a self-assessment checklist to help trusts identify issues that need to be addressed. Download of this document requires free registration.
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18 Weeks Intensive Support Team Guidance (December 2007)
With legacy patients proving a difficulty in many organisations, the 18 weeks Intensive Support Team has developed a flow chart which provides suggestions on how organisations might approach pathways where the RTT status is unknown. This guidance is not a series of hard and fast rules. Any approach adopted by a Local Health Community must be locally relevant and approved at a senior level jointly by provider and commissioning organisations. Ultimately, Trusts and PCT provider arms are responsible for the proper validation of all patients who may have an incomplete RTT pathway. It is possible that some patients on pathways with uncertain RTT status have been ‘lost to follow up’ - it is therefore an important clinical governance issue to establish the care plans for these patients and ensure that they are appropriately managed. This validation may establish some RTT pathways that have already been completed (i.e. clock stop in a previous month). These should not be added to the monthly reporting of completed RTT pathways unless the clock stops in the month of reporting.
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Guidance for the production of an information management and technology plan for the local health community in support of national and local service objectives. National expectations for the NHS are set out building on the existing investment in NPfIT and to strengthen local information and data management.
Click here for the Guidance
Privacy and Dignity: the elimination of mixed sex accommodation (December 2007)
This guidance outlines 11 key principles to support the achievement of good physical separation of the sexes in hospital accommodation. It includes a self-assessment checklist to help trusts identify issues that need to be addressed. Download of this document requires free registration.
Click here for the Guidance
18 Weeks Intensive Support Team Guidance (December 2007)
With legacy patients proving a difficulty in many organisations, the 18 weeks Intensive Support Team has developed a flow chart which provides suggestions on how organisations might approach pathways where the RTT status is unknown. This guidance is not a series of hard and fast rules. Any approach adopted by a Local Health Community must be locally relevant and approved at a senior level jointly by provider and commissioning organisations. Ultimately, Trusts and PCT provider arms are responsible for the proper validation of all patients who may have an incomplete RTT pathway. It is possible that some patients on pathways with uncertain RTT status have been ‘lost to follow up’ - it is therefore an important clinical governance issue to establish the care plans for these patients and ensure that they are appropriately managed. This validation may establish some RTT pathways that have already been completed (i.e. clock stop in a previous month). These should not be added to the monthly reporting of completed RTT pathways unless the clock stops in the month of reporting.
Click here for the Guidance
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