2 July 2008

NHS

High Quality Care for all: NHS Next Stage Review Final Report (30th June 2008)
The final report of Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review. It responds to the 10 SHA strategic visions and sets out a vision for an NHS with quality at its heart.
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What Matters to Staff in the NHS: Research Study Conducted for Department of Health - June 2008 (19th June 2008)
'What Matters to Staff in the NHS’ is a wide-ranging research study that identifies the major emotional and behaviour drivers contributing to staff engagement and motivation to provide high quality patient care. This work has informed the Next Stage Review and the development of the draft NHS Constitution.
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Joint Statement from the Social Partnership Forum 19th June 2008


Private Spending on Healthcare (25th June 2008)

The debate about healthcare finance in the UK continues after 60 years of the NHS. Both critics and supporters of the NHS question whether the UK can continue to provide tax-funded healthcare free at the point of need, as private incomes increase and as demands and the costs of healthcare continue to place ever greater pressures on the health budget. This report addresses two key policy problems: The macro level problem is the future financing of healthcare in the UK. We examine how much and how future healthcare will need to be funded. In particular, we are interested in the role that private health spending is likely to play in meeting future healthcare spending demands; and the second problem is how the current contribution of private spending in the health economy could be improved. Private spending in its many forms has always co-existed with the NHS, but has received less attention from policymakers as an integral part of the health system.
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Making it Happen. Next steps in NHS Reform, report of an expert working group (June 2008)

The pace of change and reform in the NHS has been relentless as government and those who work in the NHS seek ways to improve the service. The King’s Fund set up an expert working group to examine how effective the current incentives were in achieving this aim. The group focused on the role of PCTs as commissioners and on practice-based commissioning but discussed other issues, including patient choice. This paper includes specific proposals for government, the Department of Health, strategic health authorities and primary care trusts. These conclusions should feed into Lord Darzi’s review and help to clarify the next steps for the NHS.
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Modernising Scientific Careers (MSC) 30th June 2008)

Modernising Scientific Careers, led by the Chief Scientific Officer, is a key work programme within the Department of Health designed to ensure flexibility, sustainability and modern career pathways for healthcare scientists, fit to address the needs of future NHS.
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Our NHS, our future: the contribution of healthcare scientists (30th June 2008)
Examples of the potential contribution that scientists can make to the local Next Stage review process, to developing and setting up services within the primary care setting and to ensuring that the quality, service and safety of services are maintained.
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