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From: Linda Ferguson@DOH on 15/05/2000 10:04
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Subject: CIRCULARS : Chief Executive's Bulletin
Dear All
Here is a copy of the e-mail sent to all Chief Executives announcing DH
circulars and related publications. To reduce the problems with
attachments, I am pasting the text into this e-mail. You can see the
bulletin online at:
http://www.doh.gov.uk/cebulltin.htm
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Issue 14
The Chief Executives’ Bulletin is sent to NHS and Local Authority Chief
Executives and Directors of Social Services. It is e-mailed weekly on a
Thursday.
The Bulletin tells you of all circulars and other material published, where
to find them and whether hard copies have been mailed.
This e-mail alerts you to the latest Bulletin but does not have “live”
links to individual documents. Please use the link below to access a web
version with direct links to individual documents
http://www.doh.gov.uk/cebulletin/index.htm
You can either print copies of documents from the website or order items
appearing in the Bulletin from the Responseline 0541 555 455, unless
individual items give alternative arrangements.
Contents:
NHS interest
1. National Plan
2. The National Plan – logistics
3. Smoking cessation allocation 2000/01
4. NHS Beacon Programme for 2000/2001
5. Report of a review of the research framework in North Staffordshire
Hospital NHS Trust
6. Timetable for submission of data for Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
2000-2001- advance warning of change and possible need for local action
NHS interest
1. National Plan
9/5/00 – The Secretary of State launched the largest ever public
consultation of healthcare services, as part of the National Plan for the
NHS.
He set out a comprehensive strategy to ensure that every member of staff,
together with patients and the public, will have an opportunity to join in
and have their say in how the extra resources that the Government is
putting into the NHS can help create a modern NHS fit for the 21st century.
Press release 2000/0263
www.nhs.uk/nationalplan
Available for those with NHS Web access at:
nww.doh.nhsweb.nhs.uk/nationalplan/statement.htm
2. The National Plan – logistics
A significant part of the consultation exercise for the National Plan
involves a feedback leaflet. There will be two versions: one for staff and
one for the public. Clearly the success of this is dependent on its
widespread distribution, so that staff, patients and the public all have
the opportunity to put forward their views easily.
Part of the distribution of the general public leaflet will be via
supermarkets, high street pharmacies, public libraries and the like. This
is being co-ordinated nationally.
However, we need your help in distributing both the staff and public
leaflets via existing NHS communication/distribution channels.
A detailed note will follow shortly setting out what we need your
organisation to do to help distribute the leaflets. Leaflets will be
available week commencing 22 May 2000.
3. Smoking cessation allocation 2000/01
11/5/00 - Secretary of State has decided upon an additional allocation for
smoking cessation services from the new monies recently announced by the
Chancellor for 2000/01. A further allocation of £4m is being made for these
services, making the total budget for smoking cessation £20m this year. The
allocation will be divided on the basis of £10m to HAZs and £10m to non-HAZ
HAs and will be distributed on a weighted capitation basis. A list of
revised individual allocations to HAs and HAZs will be placed on the NHSweb
shortly.
4. NHS Beacon Programme for 2000/2001
7/5/00 - The NHS Beacon programme, launched in 1999, identifies and
supports the spread of good practice across the NHS in practical and
approachable ways, stimulating the pace of modernisation from within the
service. 290 Beacons were identified in year one of the programme and
further Beacons will be added in year two.
Detailed guidance on the NHS Beacon programme for 2000/2001 is available
from the Beacon web-site or from Regional Offices. It sets out priority
areas for the programme over the next 12 months and invites applications
from NHS organisations that are delivering high quality services in these
areas. NHS Trusts, Health Authorities, PCGs and PCTs are asked to draw the
attention of colleagues to the Beacon programme and encourage applications.
Information on how to apply to become a Beacon can be found in the
guidance; the deadline for applications to Regional Offices is 9 June.
The Department of Health and Home Office are also jointly funding a
Personality Disorder (PD) Beacon programme. This separate but related
scheme has been established to provide funding for the range of agencies
that come into contact with people with PD. Further information and
detailed guidance on this programme is also available on the Beacon
web-site.
Beacons website www.nhsbeacons.org.uk
5. Report of a review of the research framework in North Staffordshire
Hospital NHS Trust
8/5/00 – Report by the review panel chaired by Professor Rod Griffiths,
detailing its investigation into clinical and research practices in the
Department of Paediatrics at North Staffordshire Hospital NHS Trust.
www.doh.gov.uk/wmro/northstaffs.htm
Hard copies from West Midlands Regional Office Communications, tel. 0121
224 4689
6. Timetable for submission of data for Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)
2000-2001- advance warning of change and possible need for local action
11/5/00 - This information should be brought to the attention of staff
within Trusts who are responsible for submitting data to NWCS.
As from the 2000-2001 data year, the HES annual refresh data will be taken
2 months after the end of the year, instead of 3 months. The aim is to meet
demands from both DH and NHS colleagues to make HES output more timely and
hence increase its usefulness. The new timetable should enable us to start
producing output from August 2001 and so provide timely figures to feed
into the planning round.
Consultation with NHS and RO colleagues has confirmed that some Trusts will
have to change some procedures and practices in order to have their annual
data on the NWCS database complete and in good order by the new “HES
extract” deadline of
1 June 2001. For example, you may have to make changes to the procedure for
picking up and recording lab test results to ensure that diagnoses fields
are as complete as possible for the last few months of the data year and
that all records for the end of the year are submitted successfully to
NWCS. The advance warning is to ensure that you have time to identify and
implement any necessary changes in local practice.
Even if you feel confident that your trust is one of the many for which no
change in procedure is required, you are strongly advised to check it out
early as change is likely to require time.
Further information is available at www.doh.gov.uk/hes1.htm or from Kate
Liffen, Department of Health. Tel: 020-8771-5470, e-mail
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Linda Ferguson
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