16 July 2008

NHS

NHS Next Stage Review: Our vision for primary and community care (3rd July 2008)
Our vision is for primary and community care to provide high quality, personal care and support, treating people when they're sick and helping them stay healthy, where and when they need it most. Primary and community care services are regarded with pride at home and admiration abroad. Thanks to the dedication of family doctors, community nurses, health visitors, allied health professionals, social care professionals, pharmacists, dentists and opticians, most patients enjoy good quality care, close to home. There are high levels of satisfaction with services and trust in the staff who provide them. We need to ensure that high-quality care is a consistent part of everyone's experience of primary and community care. Services need to evolve to reflect changes in healthcare and society. This document sets out a vision for how services will continue to grow and develop over the next ten years. It is a vision of a continuously improving service, where essential standards are guaranteed and excellence is rewarded. Also available are summary versions of the document for different audiences.
Our vision for primary and community care

What it means for patients and the public

What it means for GPs and practice staff

What it means for nurses, midwives, health visitors and AHPs

What it means for local government

Impact assessment of NHS Next Stage Review: Proposals for primary and community care

Engagement Analysis - NHS Next Stage Review. What we heard from the Our NHS, Our Future process (7th July 2008)
This report sets out responses to Lord Darzi’s wide-ranging review of the NHS which used a variety of mechanisms to engage over 60,000 participants. Participants belong broadly to three groups who contribute from their own perspective as follows: patients and public – personal experiences at point of care; expectations, needs and wishes; staff – hands-on experience of providing care in various settings, often over a long period, giving information from the front-line, and demonstrating the challenges they face; and stakeholders – overviews, based on aggregate experience captured in anecdotal,commissioned or academic research, often informed by groups of patients and staff.
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Sixty years of the National Health Service: a proud past and a healthy future (2nd July 2008)
A short history of the NHS to celebrate its 60th birthday, based on the remarkable experiences of staff who have worked for the NHS over decades, as well as patients whose lives have been transformed through treatment. 'Sixty years of the NHS - a proud past and a healthy future' tells the story of how the NHS came about, how it has developed over the years and its focus for the future.
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A review of the consequences of additional private drugs for NHS care (7th July 2008)

Professor Mike Richards, National Clinical Director for Cancer, is to review policy relating to patients who choose to pay privately for drugs not funded on the NHS and who, as a result, are required to pay for the NHS care that they would otherwise have received free.
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Visions for care in strategic health authorities (1st July 2008)

As part of Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS, each strategic health authority (SHA) outside London was commissioned to produce a report outlining their ‘vision’ for care in their region over the coming decade. This briefing provides a thematic summary of some of the key features of the nine SHA plans.
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In the beginning: Determinants of Health (4th July 2008)

This briefing looks at the early years of the NHS and the challenges it faced, from long waiting lists to shortages of staff. It also looks forward to what the next 60 years might hold for the NHS. It is based on a series of Data briefings by John Appleby and Ruth Thorlby published in the Health Service Journal between January and July 2008.
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Rejuvenate or Retire: Views of the NHS at 60 (3rd July 2008)

For the 60th Anniversary of the NHS, The Nuffield Trust has brought together many of the major players involved in the development of the health service for its latest publication Rejuvenate or Retire: Views of the NHS at 60. Containing a series of candid reflections on the successes and failures of the NHS, important insights into its history and key challenges for the future, it is essential reading for healthcare leaders, policy-makers, students, and all those interested in the history and prospects of this very British institution.
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Survival rates publication on NHS Choices (9th July 2008)

This document provides an explanation of the methodology behind the creation of the survival indicators. It includes standardised mortality ratios (SMR) for each trust and the following procedures. Elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm, emergency repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm, elective hip replacement and elective knee replacement.
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