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.For those that are receiving this through an email or through a third party you can view the original Bulletin at http://www.newdocumentsbulletin.blogspot.com/ and also sign up to receive the Bulletin by RSS.
Personal Care at Home Bill 2009-10 (25th November 2009)This Bill was presented to Parliament today. The Bill will provide for those with the greatest care needs to be offered free personal care at home.
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The Hospital Guide 2009 (29th November 2009)The Hospital Guide highlights some dramatic improvements in the NHS but also serious concern about the variations between hospitals. This year’s Hospital guide focuses on safety and previews Dr Foster quality accounts.
Publication
Understanding college students' alcohol-related social norms in Sefton: Interim Findings (30th November 2009)This report builds on previous research conducted in schools in Sefton into social drinking norms in young people.
The survey results showed that 97.3% of respondents had consumed alcohol. Their motivations to drink alcohol were:
- pressure from friends (12.4%)
- celebrate special occasions (95%)
- it was fun (79%)
- to get drunk (62%)
- to cheer themselves up (49%)
- to feel more confident (44%)
- to forget their worries (30%)
Report Lancashire: Brief Intervention Online Training Evaluation - Final Report (30th November 2009)This report, by Centre for Public Health, evaluates the online training programme that NHS Central Lancashire commissioned DeltaNet International Limited to construct, on the theory and practice of delivering brief interventions (BIs) that aimed to reach a wide audience.
The two central recommendations are:
Commissioners and/or DeltaNet International Limited should examine the IT systems used to house the program and make recommendations to the participants regarding the technical specifications of equipment and basic computing skills required.
Commissioners should examine whether the profile of the participants who took part matched the intended target audience as many participants found the material basic.
ReportImpact of Alcohol in Greater Manchester, quarter one: September 2009/10 (30th November 2009)This report identifies available alcohol intelligence from across Greater Manchester. The data are separated into six categories:
consumption
health related impacts of alcohol
crime
young people, and
examples of interventions to tackle excessive alcohol consumption
Report Why do people drink at home? An exploration of the perceptions of adult home consumption practice (November 2009)The first Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England (The Prime Ministers Strategy Unit 2004) made no mention of the challenges posed by drinking away from licensed premises. However the most recent strategy (Home Office 2007) recognises that home drinkers do present a significant health burden.
This report uses a qualitative methodology to examine some of the reasons put forward by male and female participants age range 15-75 for drinking away from licensed premises. The authors are defining an adult as 16 and above. This is the age when it is legal to drink alcohol accompanied by a meal.
Final Report
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DH International annual report 2008-09 (3rd December 2009)DH International is the specialist team supporting health initiatives overseas, working in partnership with all major stakeholders. DH International sits within the Department of Health's International Division, which has overall responsibility for the strategic direction of the Department's global and EU business.
Annual Report Cancer reform strategy: achieving local implementation - second annual report (1st December 2009)In the second annual report of the Cancer Reform Strategy, Professor Mike Richards, the National Cancer Director, sets out the progress made in implementing the strategy since its publication in December 2007. As with the first annual report, this report covers a wide range of actions that were set out in the strategy, highlighting areas of particular progress and setting out a range of priorities for the future. This report also provides detailed information on meeting local progress, especially regarding standards which should now have been met.
Annual Report
Emergency planning: development of an integrated plan for the management of blood shortages (25th November 2009)This paper updates the integrated plan for blood shortages released in 2004 and the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) external document ESD/PCS/HL/001/012 released in January 2005. The original plan was prepared by the Chief Medical Officers National Blood Transfusion Committees (NBTC) subgroup on contingency planning, and lists actions to be taken by both NHSBT, then the National Blood Service, and hospitals in the event of a potential or actual red cell shortage.
Paper
Performance judgements for adult social services (3rd December 2009)The Care Quality Commission has praised improvements in adult social care but called for a renewed effort to eliminate poor quality services.
The main findings are:
- 95% of local authorities are performing either excellently or well in their commissioning of adult social care (compared to 87% in the previous year).
- One quarter of councils are rated only adequate in terms of giving people choice and control over their care.
- A third of councils must do more to care for people with dignity and respect.
- 77% of care homes, home care agencies, nursing agencies and shared lives schemes are rated excellent or good (compared to 69% in 2008).
- Around 400 regulated adult social care services are rated as poor and 3,500 as adequate.
- In care homes for older people, a fifth fail to meet the standard on social contact and activities.
Reports Guidance on meeting new essential standards of quality and safety (8th December 2009)The Care Quality Commission is today launching guidance for all health and adult social care providers on meeting new essential standards of quality and safety that will apply across the care sector.
Providers must show they are meeting essential standards as part of a new registration system which focuses on people rather than policies, on outcomes rather than systems.
Guidance
Oneplace for an independent overview of local public services (9th December 2009)A new website for Comprehensive Area Assessment has been launched. Oneplace is for those who pay for local services, those who provide them and those who use them.
Resource
Click Clever, Click Safe. The first UK Child Internet Safety Strategy (8th December 2009)A coalition of Government, industry and charities will today launch the first UK internet safety strategy to help children and young people stay safe online. The strategy, drawn up by the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS), will be launched at the first UKCCIS Summit today in London.
Press Release
Strategy
Other Documents from the Summit Staying Safe Survey 2009 - Children and Parents' Attitudes around Internet Safety (8th December 2009)The Staying Safe Survey is the Department for Children, Schools and Families; new tracking survey of young people and parents' attitudes and confidence around a number of safety issues. The results in this report were commissioned specifically to inform their work on child internet safety.
Report
Responsibilities and operational requirements for the correct use of choose and book (8th December 2009)This guidance helps organisations to understand the importance of using Choose and Book correctly to ensure that all patients wherever they are in England experience the same high quality access to NHS care.
Guidance
World Class Commissioning for the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities (25th November 2009)Recent inquiries have demonstrated the health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities; and the reasonable adjustments needed to overcome them. This is a practical guide to support commissioners to meet the needs of this group, and ensure they are fulfilling their duty to promote equality.
Publication The Commissioning Friend for Mental Health Services. A guide for health and social care commissioners (2nd December 2009)This guide, published by Commissioning Support for London and the National Mental Health Development Unit, covers mental health services across England and will act as a useful reference tool on key issues to support commissioners to carry out their day to day work.
Guide How to use NICE guidance to commission high quality services (3rd December 2009)A new guide has been launched at the NICE conference which explains how NICE guidance supports the commissioning of high quality services and describes how the guidance can be used throughout the commissioning cycle.
Guide Commissioning for quality (2nd December 2009)Primary care trusts (PCTs) have two key roles as commissioners: to drive up the quality of care as advocates for patients; and to drive efficiency and productivity as custodians for the taxpayer.
The NHS Confederations recent discussion paper, Commissioning in a cold climate, considered what commissioners need to do to prepare their health economies for the financial challenges now facing the NHS.
This paper focuses on commissioners' other key role: acting on behalf of the populations they serve to ensure local healthcare services are safe, effective and accessible and that quality of care in and patients’ experience of the NHS continues to improve.
Paper A commissioner's guide to service user involvement in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services for people with mental health conditions (1st December 2009)This is a concise guide for health and social care commissioners on how to involve people with direct experience of using mental health services in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services. It is based on the experiences of commissioners and service users who collaborated on re-designing and modernising local services.
Guide Resources to support commissioners of services for women and girls who are victims of violence (December 2009)NHS Primary Care Commissioning have a new web page to support commissioners of services for women and girls who are victims of violence.
Resources PBC Connection - what's new (26th November 2009)New resources, including Commissioning for COPD, have been added to the PBC Connection website to aid commissioners.
Resources
Healthy children, safer communities - a strategy to promote the health and well-being of children and young people in contact with the youth justice system (8th December 2009)This cross government strategy aims to help tackle youth crime and anti-social behaviour, and contribute to community safety in England. It sets out a strategic approach to inform the work of the Healthy Children, Safer Communities Programme Board to fulfil the vision that children and young people will be safer, healthier and stay away from crime.
Strategy
Improving information for stakeholders: a report of a PCT and SHA working group to improve community information (2nd December 2009)This report sets out the findings of a joint DH/SHA/PCT working group to improve community information. The report provides a framework for commissioners and providers to improve information on community services and include a number of case studies from NHS organisations.
Report Quality framework for community services: directory of indicators. Draft version (1st December 2009)This directory sets out a list of quality indicators that are currently being developed for publication. The Department is piloting these indicators at 23 sites and is looking to publish amendments or changes to these at the end of the year.
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Pharmacy in England: building on strengths - delivering the future - Draft regulations under the Health Act 2009: pharmaceutical needs assessments. Consultation document (1st December 2009)Following consultation in Autumn 2008, two clauses were introduced in the Health Bill 2009 (now the Health Act 2009).
- to require Primary Care Trusts to develop and publish pharmaceutical needs assessments (PNAs); and
- then to use PNAs as the basis for determining market entry to NHS pharmaceutical services provision
In July 2009, a regulatory Advisory Group drawn from interested parties was set up, chaired by Paul Burns. The first set of draft regulations regarding PNAs have now been prepared by the Department of Health with assistance from the Group and are available for consultation.
Closing date for comments is 28th February 2010.
Consultation A Consultation on proposals for the Innovation Pass pilot (28th November 2009)In July the Office for Life Sciences (OLS) published the ‘Life Sciences Blueprint’ which announced a package of measures to help maintain a competitive life science sector. One of the initiatives announced in the blueprint was the introduction of an ‘Innovation Pass’.
This consultation seeks views from the NHS, industry and other stakeholders on the Government’s proposals for an Innovation Pass pilot. These proposals will be revised in light of comments received as part of this consultation and will be used to inform the first set of decisions for the pilot in 2010/1
Closing date for comments is 8th February 2010.
Consultation Personal care at home: a consultation on proposals for regulations and guidance (25th November 2009)A consultation document containing proposals for regulations and guidance made under the Personal Care At Home Bill has been published today. An impact assessment accompanying the consultation is also available. An easy read version will be available soon.
Although closing date for comments is 23rd February 2010, the Department of Health would like, if possible, comments to reach them by 26th January 2010.
Consultation Provision of calorie labelling at point of choice in catering outlets (3rd December 2009)The Food Standards Agency is seeking views on how a voluntary scheme to display calorie information on menus would work best in practice.
A calorie labelling scheme would help people make healthier choices when they are eating out, by letting them see the number of calories in the food and drink they order – whether they are in restaurants, coffee and sandwich shops, pubs, leisure attractions or staff restaurants.
Closing date for comments is 11th March 2010.
Press Release
Consultation
Response to the consultation, and final guidance, to deal with nuisance and disturbance on NHS premises (30th November 2009)The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 provides a power to remove those causing a nuisance or disturbance on hospital premises in England.
This response to the consultation produces a final version of the guidance for the use of these powers, which gives NHS bodies a framework in which to use this legislation.
Consultation Response Summary of Responses to the Consultation on the Additional Uses of Patient Data (30th November 2009)This document reports the findings of the responses received from the: “Consultation on the Public’s, Patients’ and Other Interested Parties’ Views on Additional Uses of Patient Data”. The consultation, which was carried out on behalf of NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH), closed on 12 December 2008.
Responses
Safe management and use of controlled drugs (25th November 2009)Letter highlighting the recommendations in the recently published annual report of the Care Quality Commission on the safer management of controlled drugs, and the responsibilities of trust Chief Executives to support their Accountable Officers in their day-to-day role in delivering these recommendations.
Information
Guide to Data Protection (26th November 2009)The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has produced a new guide to handling personal information.
The Guide offers practical advice to those with day-to-day responsibility for data protection, taking a straight-forward look at the principles of the Data Protection Act, helping organisations safeguard personal data.
Press Release
Guide
Local self-assessment audit for assessing implementation of HTM 01-05: decontamination in primary care dental practices and related infection prevention and control issues (1st December 2009)The Department of Health and Infection Prevention Society (DH/IPS) audit tool has been produced jointly by the Department and the Infection Prevention Society to allow practices to assess their level of compliance with HTM 01-05. It will allow practices to identify areas where they need to improve the quality of the decontamination process to achieve essential quality requirements and best practice as identified in the guidance document.
The Health Technical Memorandum 01-05: Decontamination in primary care dental practices is also available.
Audit Tool
Food Standards Agency's Strategy for 2010-2015 (7th December 2009)Consumers should expect to be eating safer food and be choosing healthier and more balanced meals by 2015 as a result of the Food Standards Agency’s Strategy for 2010–2015, published today.
The five outcomes the Agency aims to deliver are:
- food produced or sold in the UK is safe to eat
- imported food is safe to eat
- consumers understand about safe food and healthy eating, and have the information they need to make informed choices
- food products and catering meals are healthier
- regulation is effective, risk-based and proportionate, is clear about the responsibilities of food business operators and others, and protects consumers and their interests from fraud and other risks
Strategy
Tuberculosis in the UK: Annual report on tuberculosis surveillance in the UK 2009 (2nd December 2009)In 2008 in the UK, 8,655 cases of tuberculosis were reported, a rate of 14.1 per 100,000 population. This represents an increase of 2.2% in the rate of disease compared with 2007.
The main burden of disease was concentrated in major urban areas; 39% of cases were reported from London, a rate of 44.3 cases per 100,000. Nineteen primary care organisations had a rate of 40 per 100,000 or over, all of which covered major urban areas.
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