Showing posts with label Impact Assessment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Impact Assessment. Show all posts

25 November 2009

IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA): 18 weeks referral to treatment standard (13th November 2009)
This Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) provides an assessment of the impact of the 18 weeks referral to treatment standard on the six key equality dimensions of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief.
Impact Assessment

11 March 2009

HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

IMPACT ASSESSMENT

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: A guide for family, friends and unpaid carers (6th March 2009)
This booklet contains all the information that family, friends and unpaid carers need to understand what the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguides is all about. It helps them to:
  • Understand their rights to have a say in their friends or family member's care
  • Ensures that all possible steps are being taken to protect the interests of their friend or family member while they are being deprived of their liberty.
Booklet

Making decisions: The Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) service (6th March 2009)
This document sets out the role and responsibilities of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. This edition has been updated to reflect the requirements of the MCA and MCA DOLS legislation.
Document


Diversion (23rd February 2009)
Diversion finds that many opportunities for diversion are being missed and too little is being done to ensure that offenders with mental health problems make continuing use of community mental health services.

This report, from Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, looks at the evidence on outcomes and the effectiveness of diversion, it includes information from site visits and looks at whether diversion is good value for money.
Report

Doing what works (18th February 2009)
Doing What Works, published by Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, shows that Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is by far the most effective way of helping people with severe and enduring mental health problems to gain and retain the jobs they want. But it is only effective if all seven of its key principles are in place.
Briefing

Improving the patient experience: sharing success in mental health and learning disabilities - the King's Fund's Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme (9th March 2009)
Since 2000, the Department has supported the King's Fund's Enhancing the Healing Environment, a nurse-led environmental improvement programme. Following the success of initial projects in London, the programme was extended to 69 Trusts in England including acute, mental health, learning disability and primary care trusts.
Report


The Legal Aspects of the Care and Treatment of Children and Young People with Mental Disorder: A Guide for Professionals (January 2009)
This report, published by National Institute for Mental Health in England, provides guidance about how to provide mental healthcare for children and young adults within the legal and policy framework.
Report

NHS

Review of NHS ISA (UK and I) 260 Reports (19th February 2009)
This report sets out the findings of the Audit Commission's analysis of financial reporting issues detailed by auditors in the 2007/08 ISA 260 (annual governance) reports. This review was undertaken in order to identify areas of risk to support planning, training and guidance for auditors and NHS bodies through chief accountants' workshops for 2008/09 by identifying common financial reporting issues. The report will also help to identify areas which are a potential risk in financial management and budgeting terms.
Report

NHS reference costs 2008/09: collection guidance (6th March 2009)
This document outlines the mandatory requirements for the 2008/09 reference costs collection. It updates and supersedes previous costing guidance. It should be read in conjunction with the latest version of the NHS costing manual.
Guidance

NHS Costing manual 2008/09 (6th March 2009)
This manual sets out the principles and practice of costing to be applied in the NHS. It is not just designed to support the production of the National Schedule of Reference Costs and through this, the national tariff, but should also be used in developing and monitoring service and financial frameworks, as well as developments in and the monitoring and implementation of National Service Frameworks.
Manual

Sexual orientation: a practical guide for the NHS
This document gives practical advice to enable NHS organisations to address their responsibilities relating to sexual orientation and employment or healthcare delivery.
Guidance

Impact assessment of regulations to require NHS bodies to register with CQC and meet a requirement on HCAI in 2009 (26th February 2009)

Statement on Internal Control 2008/2009: disclosures and related documents (25th February 2009)
Clarification on how and where organisations should make disclosures or qualifications on their Statement on Internal Control (SIC) about risk management and review processes being in place for the full year, gaps in assurance frameworks, NHS Pension Scheme compliance and significant control issues for 2008/09.
Information

Acute health clinical costing standards 2009/10 (24th February 2009)
Clinical costing is often known by its other name of Patient Level Information and Costing or “PLICS”. It relates to the primary functions of health providers, which are to diagnose and treat patients. Clinical costing is derived from tracing resources used by an individual patient in diagnosis and treatment and calculating the expenditure of those resources using the actual costs incurred by the organisation. These standards apply to the provision of acute care.
Guidance

Real-time Patient Feedback Project (5th March 2009)
This report draws on the experiences of West Midlands PCTs and provider organisations as well as those further afield to build up a picture of current practice in the NHS and in private industry. The report notes that while the use of real-time methodologies has a definite and beneficial role within engagement, organisations must ensure it is part of an overall strategy and that robust processes are in place for co-ordinating data collection, its collation, analysis and dissemination. The report also emphasises the need for feedback to result in action and for that action to be publicised.
Report

PHARMACY

:Pharmacy Practice 2008. Medicines focussed & Patient Centred. Pharmacy Practice Framework (17th February 2009)
This framework, published by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, defines the core common roles expected of a newly qualified pharmacist and aims to demonstrate their contribution to health and health care delivery.
Framework

The Contribution of Pharmacy to making Britain a Safer Place to Take Medicines (18th February 2009)
This report, from Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, calls for a five to 10 year action plan to be drawn up by pharmacists and other key healthcare providers to improve medicines safety. It also makes recommendations for further practice.
Report

Impact assessment of pharmacy market exit policy (18th February 2009)

PRIMARY CARE TRUSTS


Citizens Advice Bureau mystery shopping of PCT helplines (19th February 2009)
Every primary care trust in England now runs a dental access helpline to help match up patients looking for NHS care with a dentist in their area. In August and September 2008, the Citizens Advice Bureau Service (CAB) undertook a mystery shopping exercise of 55 dental helplines across England, to see how effective these helplines are in providing patients with the information and advice they need to find a dentist. This is the report of the exercise.
Report

18 February 2009

HEALTH

Piloting Personal Health Budgets (17th February 2009)
This is the impact assessment for Personal Health Budgets: First Steps, which sets out the principles of personal health budgets, reports on early lessons and invites expressions of interest in the pilot programme.
Impact Assessment