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This bulletin highlights recently produced documents that have appeared on websites. The aim is to trawl the web and produce a fortnightly review of what is found (coverage may not be comprehensive). If you have any comments or suggestions regarding this Bulletin, please send an email to library.pct@sthk.nhs.uk. All links are correct at time of publishing. Some documents are large and may take time to open so please be patient when waiting for links to open. If a link is incorrect please email me and I will correct the link and send you the document.

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ALCOHOL

Understanding young people's alcohol-related social norms in schools in Sefton: final report (9th October 2009)
The social norms campaign was delivered by NHS Sefton in schools in Sefton during June and early July 2009. As part of this intervention a poster campaign was run with the posters being based on some of the findings provided in the interim report. This is the final report of the campaign.
Report

ANNUAL REPORT

Working together to save lives: the Organ Donation Taskforce Implementation Programme's annual report, 2008/09 (8th October 2009)
The first annual report of the Organ Donation Taskforce Implementation Programme highlights the progress that has been made in the first year of the Implementation Programme, particularly the changes in structures and arrangements in the NHS with the move to a centrally managed, and enlarged, network of Donor Transplant Coordinators and the appointment of Clinical Leads for Organ Donation within hospital trusts.
Report

National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) Annual Report 2008-09 (October 2009)
This is the annual report of the NTA.
Report

BULLETINS/NEWSLETTERS

CMO Update 49 (7th October 2009)

Environmental Health Quarterly Bulletin: Issue 14, August 2009 (28th September 2009)

Sexual Health Quarterly Bulletin September 2009 edition (28th September 2009)

NWPHO Health E-News September 2009 (29th September 2009)

Health Protection Report Vol. 3 No. 39 (2nd October 2009)

Health Protection Report Vol. 3 No. 40 (9th October 2009)

The month: issue 25, September 2009 (29th September 2009)

CMO Update Archive 2008 (6th October 2009)

CDO Update, October 2009 (1st October 2009)

Children, Families and Maternity e-bulletin, October 2009 Edition 55 (October 2009)

CANCER

Manual for Cancer Services 2008: Complementary Measures (9th October 2009)
Following a three month consultation period, this is the final version of the complementary measures for inclusion in the Manual for Cancer Services. The measures can also be found on the CQUINS website.
Guidance

CARE QUALITY COMMISSION

Better monitoring of out-of hours GP services (2nd October 2009)
The NHS may fail to spot concerns about patient safety unless it improves its monitoring of out-of-hours GP services. These are the early observations from the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) enquiry into out-of-hours provider Take Care Now.

Cynthia Bower, CQC's chief executive, says:

"Although we are still in the early stages of our enquiries, we believe this may point towards a national problem. We are therefore encouraging PCTs across the country to scrutinize in more detail the out-of-hours services they commission.
Information

Out of hours (OOH) primary care services: PCTs' contract and performance management arrangements - letter from National Director for Primary Care in relation to the above

Guidance: Sharing Information gained during regulatory activity (13th October 2009)
This guidance, from the Care Quality Commission, explains how they share information about service providers with commissioners of care e.g. councils and primary care trusts.
Guidance

CARE/CARERS

Primary Care Trusts and The Carers Strategy (12th October 2009)
New research, carried out by two of the UK’s leading carers’ charities The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and Crossroads Care, has uncovered approximately £40m of the £50m allocated by the government for carers support is failing to reach carers.

80% of new monies given by government to Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in 2009/10 have not been used to increase support for carers as was intended.
Survey and Report

CHILDREN/YOUNG PEOPLE

Partner exploitation and violence in teenage intimate relationships (September 2009)
This is the first study in Great Britain to provide a detailed picture of the incidence and impact of teenage partner violence.
Research from the US has highlighted the high level of violence in young people’s intimate relationships. However, how these findings apply to the UK context has been unknown.

This research, funded by the Big Lottery Fund and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, sought to bridge this gap in understanding.
Executive Summary

COMMISSIONING

The Opportunity Locator version 2
This data tool, from the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, supports the commissioning priorities of local health communities. The purpose of it is to stimulate ideas on where commissioners should focus their attention in re-designing and shifting services away from the traditional setting of the hospital and out towards community based care.
Tool

Improving quality in primary care (7th October 2009)
This is a practical guide to support PCTs as commissioners of primary care, in working with local clinicians and other stakeholders - including patients - to promote continuous quality and productivity improvement in primary care services.
Guide

Commissioning local breastfeeding support services (6th October 2009)
This commissioning guidance aims to assist commissioners and primary care trusts (PCTs) in providing coherent services that will promote breastfeeding and reduce inequalities, as set out in Healthy Lives, Brighter Futures: the strategy for children and young people’s health (Department for Children, Schools and Families and Department of Health, 2009, para 3.43), and to work with local Children’s Trust partners in delivering Public Service Agreement (PSA) 12.
Guidance

Integrated care pilots: an introductory guide (30th September 2009)
This introductory guide to the national programme of integrated care pilots and evaluation provides a summary of the work each pilot will be doing as they implement and test their models of integrated care.
Guide

Behaviour change training delivered across Cheshire and Merseyside. A report mapping programmes and exploring processes (Published June 2009 new to website 6th October 2009)
This report was commissioned by Cheshire and Merseyside Public Health Network (ChaMPs). It details a mapping exercise of behaviour change training programmes and an exploration of the processes involved in commissioning and delivering these programmes across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Report

Top tips for commissioners and providers of behaviour change training programmes (6th October 2009)
This ‘top tips’ document was commissioned by Cheshire and Merseyside Public Health Network (ChaMPs) to support the commissioning and delivery of effective behaviour change training programmes across Cheshire and Merseyside. The document was informed by a mapping exercise of behaviour change training programmes being delivered across Cheshire and Merseyside and an exploration of the processes involved in commissioning and delivering them. It includes, ‘top tips’ for commissioners and providers of behaviour change training programmes; a best practice checklist; and a case study of a strategic and coordinated approach to behaviour change training.
Document

Tackling demand together: a toolkit for improving urgent and emergency care pathways by understanding increases in 999 demand (13th October 2009)
This toolkit has been produced by a group of ambulance providers and primary care trust commissioners together with the Department of Health to offer practical analysis, worksheets and tools to help all commissioners and providers improve urgent and emergency care services through better understanding of the factors affecting significant rises in 999 demand.
Toolkit

CONSULTATION RESPONSES

Response to consultation on the de-authorisation of NHS foundation trusts (8th October 2009)
This is the Department of Health's response to consultation on the de-authorisation of NHS foundation trusts. It summarises the responses received, and outlines the Government's intention to take action as part of the Health Bill currently before Parliament.
Consultation Response

CONSULTATIONS

Draft psychological support measures (9th October 2009)
A draft version of the Psychological Support measures for the Manual of Cancer Services is being issued for a three month consultation. A copy of the draft measures can be found on the Cancer Section of the Department of Health's website www.dh.gov.uk, or the CQUINS website www.cquins.nhs.uk.

Closing date for comments is 8th January 2010.
Consultation

The Human Fertilisation & Embryology Act 1990: disclosure of identifying information for research: regulations for consultation (8th October 2009)
The regulations establish a procedure for authorising the disclosure of identifying information held by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, for research purposes, where it is not practicable to obtain consent to the disclosure from the persons to whom the information relates.

This is the second consultation exercise. Closing date for comments is 2nd December 2009.
Consultation

Implementing the Health Act 2006: review of fees for applications to provide pharmaceutical services in England: consultation document (12th October 2009)
The National Health Services Pharmaceutical Services (Fees for Applications) Directions 2008 (as amended in April 2008) came into force on 21 April 2008 and specify the types of application for which a fee will be payable and the levels of such fees. The Government undertook during the passage of the Health Bill 2006 to consider a general review of this measure 18 months after it was introduced.

The Department of Health would welcome comments and views on the impact of charging on the NHS, pharmacy and appliance contractors and applicants and whether or not the current fees represent a fair contribution to NHS costs.

Closing date for comments is 12th January 2010.
Consultation

Care Quality Commission - Our Strategy for 2010-2015 (1st October 2009)
From April 2010, the Care Quality Commissions work will revolve around their new strategic priorities. Before they finalise their strategic plan, they are seeking views on how they should their powers and resources to achieve the best possible care for people across England.
Closing date for comments is 24th December 2009.
Consultation

Consultation on proposed tobacco control regulations in England (under the Health Bill 2009) (7th October 2009)
Protecting children from the health harms of smoking is a public health priority for the Government. The Health Bill 2009, currently before Parliament, includes proposals on two areas to safeguard children - provisions to prohibit the display of tobacco products and regulation-making powers to limit access to tobacco vending machines.

This consultation aims to inform parliamentary debate and gives an important opportunity for stakeholders to consider the practical implications of the details that are set out in the proposed regulations. Views are also invited on the two Partial Impact Assessments, which accompany the proposed regulations.

Closing date for comments is 30th December 2009.
Consultation

DIABETES

International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2009 (September 2009)
The 2009 ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines have now been published as a compendium in a Supplement to Pediatric Diabetes. The guidelines, which have been updated and are available as individual documents include:

• Definition, epidemiology, diagnosis and classification
• Monogenic diabetes
• Management of cystic fibrosis-related diabetes
• Nutritional management
• Psychological issues

Guidelines

DIRECTIONS

Alternative Provider Medical Services Directions 2009 (12th October 2009)
These Directions, which may be cited as the Alternative Provider Medical Services Directions 2009, are given to Primary Care Trusts in England and shall come into force on 17th September 2009.
Directions

DOCTORS

Women doctors: making a difference - report of the Chair of the National Working Group on Women in Medicine (13th October 2009)
In a chapter of his 2006 Annual Report, the Chief Medical Officer considered the implications of the recent increase in the number of women entering medical school, a figure that has risen from 492 in 1960/61 to 4,583 in 2008/09. Among other effects, this has created demand for improved flexibility of working hours, meant changes to career expectations and led to new challenges for workforce planning.

In August 2008, the Chief Medical Officer asked Baroness Ruth Deech to chair a National Working Group on Women in Medicine to consider the opportunities available to women working in the medical profession.

Their report considers the current situation, reviews existing work and recommends a programme of action to improve opportunities for women in medicine.
Report

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Children and families experiencing domestic violence: police and children's social services' responses (September 2009)
In England and Wales, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 amended the definition of significant harm provided by the Children Act 1989, adding a new category of “impairment suffered from seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another”. Since domestic violence and children’s exposure to it represent a widespread social problem, this amendment has acted to draw a potentially large group of families within the remit of children’s social services. The growing mountain of police notifications to children’s social services of domestic violence incidents where children are involved and the pressures that this has created have been noted by a range of commentators in the UK, North America and Australia.

The notification system has emerged against what is acknowledged to be a background of fragmented services for children and families experiencing domestic violence, and represents an attempt to improve communication and coordination between universal and highly targeted services. This research, from the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, examined both the notification process itself and the subsequent service pathways followed by families brought to the attention of children’s social services in
this way. It also explored which other agencies contributed to services for families experiencing domestic violence and captured young people’s, survivors’ and perpetrators’ views of services.
Executive summary

EDUCATION/SCHOOLS

Children with Special Educational Needs 2009: an analysis (8th October 2009)
The Special Educational Needs (SEN) Information Act (2008) required the Secretary of State to publish information about children in England with special educational needs to help improve the well-being of these children.

This new annual statistical publication was developed to meet the requirements of the Act. This publication includes a wealth of new information on pupils with SEN alongside further interpretation of existing findings.
Publication

FINANCE

Auditors' Local Evaluation and Use of Resources 2008/09 (1st October 2009)

Each year, the Audit Commission assesses how well NHS trusts and primary care trusts manage their resources and deliver value for money. For 2008/09, these assessments have been based on the Auditors' Local Evaluation (ALE) for NHS trusts and Use of Resources (UoR) for primary care trusts. We have published a national report outlining the scores and how they should be viewed in the context of the overall financial performance of the NHS in 2008/09, which is one of a continued improvement in financial stability. NHS foundation trusts are assessed by Monitor.

Auditors make assessments in a number of themes using key lines of enquiry. There are five themes for ALE and three themes for UoR:
ALE

• financial reporting
• financial management
• financial standing
• internal control
• value for money

UoR

• managing finances
• governing the business
• managing resources

Report

FOOD SAFETY

Mission: Possible! National Pilot Project Evaluation Report (12th October 2009)
The Food Standards Agency has published an evaluation report of FSA Mission: Possible!, a UK-wide pilot scheme aimed at teaching food hygiene messages to children aged 8 to 10 (key stage 2).

The report concludes that the pilot was a great success. The scheme's secret agent concept captured pupils' imaginations and allowed them to develop a range of skills that could be applied to the wider curriculum, such as carrying out scientific investigation. FSA Mission: Possible! has proved to be a valuable resource, which is popular with children, their parents and teachers, and local authorities.
Report

GUIDANCE/GUIDELINES

Collection Point Administration System (CPAS) user guidance (12th October 2009)
These training manuals are to provide guidance to users of the Collection Point Administration System (CPAS) for antivirals.
Guidance

INDEPENDENT SECTOR TREATMENT CENTRES

Independent Sector Treatment Centres (1st October 2009)
Independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) provide services to NHS patients but are owned and run by organisations outside the NHS. This briefing paper explains why ISTCs were introduced, and how they are funded, staffed and regulated. It assesses their impact so far, including the quality of their services and whether they provide good value for money. Finally, it examines what their future may be now that the contracts ISTC providers hold with the Department of Health are beginning to expire.
Briefing