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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.
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Chief Executive Bulletin – 10 March - 16 March Issue 6
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. This is the first issue where we have included Chief Executives
of Primary Care Groups in the mailing.
The Bulletin tells you of all circulars and other material published and
where to find them.
Please use the link below to access a web version with direct links to
individual documents http://www.doh.gov.uk/cebulletin.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.
Please click on this http://www.doh.gov.uk/cebulletin.htm for an on-line
version of this bulletin which has hyper-text links to the individual
publications contained in the Bulletin. Hard copy versions of these
publications can be ordered from the NHS Responseline 0541 555 455.
NHS interest
HSC 2000/006 Professions Supplementary to Medicine: Employment Of
Practitioners in the NHS and Social Services Departments
13/3/2000 - This guidance consolidates previous advice concerning the
restriction of employment of all practitioners of the professions
supplementary to medicine. It also asks you to verify registration.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
Mailed to NHS Trust Directors of Personnel and Regional Office Education
and Nurse leads, hard copies available now. Document Ref. 20985
Pay for NHS Managers 2000/2001 – Alan Langlands letter of 16 March 2000
The NHS Review Body recommendations have been accepted in full including
special provision where specific recruitment and retention problems need to
be addressed. The pay offer for "non-Review Body" staff for 2000/2001 is
3.25% or £300 whichever is the higher.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/pointh.htm
Hard copies available from 16/3/00 and will be mailed out to NHS Directors
of Finance and Personnel. (Ref. 21148)
Advance Letter (AC)1/2000
15/3/00 - This Advance Letter sets out the agreement reached by the
Administrative and Clerical Staffs Whitley Council on increases to the
national salary scales for the years 1999/2000, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002.
It also explains the increases to London allowances, effective for the
years 1999/2000 and 2000/2001.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
Hard copies available from 23/3/00 and will be mailed to NHS Directors of
Finance and Personnel W/C 20/3/00 (Ref. 21234)
Advance Letter (ASC)1/2000
15/3/00 - This Advance Letter sets out the agreement reached by the
Ancillary Staffs Whitley Council on increases to national rates of pay for
the years 1999/2000, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002. It also explains the
increases to London allowances, effective for the years 1999/2000 and
2000/2001.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
Hard copies will be available from 23/3/00, will be mailed out to NHS
Directors of Finance & Personnel 23/3/00 (Ref. 21217)
Advanced Letter (AC) 2/2000 and Advance Letter (AMB) 1/2000
15/3/00 - The Ambulance Whitley Council has reached agreement on increases
to the national salary scales for the years 1999/2000, 2000/2001 and
2001/2002. Increases to London Allowances are effective for the years
1999/2000 and 2000/2001.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
The Advance Letters were distributed to Regional Directors, Human Resources
Directors and Directors of Finance of Ambulance Service NHS Trusts on the
15 March 2000.
AL(MD) 3/00 Pay and Conditions of Service of Hospital Medical and Dental
Staff and Doctors in Public Health Medicine and the Community Health
Service
15/3/00 - This letter authorises revision to two pages of Amendment (HMD)
No 22 issued under cover of Advance Letter (MD) 1/00 dated 1 March 2000. It
corrects an error on the Staff Grade Practitioner incremental scales MH01
and MHO3/5 respectively.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
Hard copies available from 15/3/00 and will be mailed out to NHS Directors
of Finance and Personnel (Ref. 21160)
NHS Smoking Cessation Services 2000/01
Yvette Cooper, Public Health Minister, has announced that £16m will be made
available for the development of smoking cessation services across the NHS
in 2000/01. In line with the Government’s wish to tackle health
inequalities, £8m is being made available to Health Action Zones (HAZs).
The remaining £8m will be distributed to the rest of the NHS to support the
setting up of new services. The monies are to be distributed on a weighted
capitation basis. A list of individual allocations to HAs and HAZs is
available on the Department’s website at
http://www.doh.gov.uk/nhssmokingcessation
The National Priorities Guidance makes it clear that tackling smoking is
one of thirteen priorities which the Secretary of State has set for the NHS
in 2000/01. The NPG sets targets for the provision of services to 150,000
smokers nationally, with 20,000 quitting on a long-term basis. The
regional envelopes for smoking cessation, prepared for the 2000/01 Service
and Financial Frameworks, reflect these targets and HAs will need to
consider supporting the allocation with monies from other sources where
necessary to achieve their targets. All HAs and HAZs are asked to submit
costed plans for their services to regional offices by 14 April at the
latest in order to trigger release of their allocations.
The Department is writing separately to local smoking cessation leads,
Directors of Finance, and Directors of Public Health. Detailed guidance on
the development of smoking cessation services was provided in HSC 1999/087
(http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm). Updated service and monitoring guidance
will be available on the Department’s website as above from 10 April 2000.
Priority Treatment for War Pensioners
This is to remind Health Authorities and NHS Trusts of the arrangements for
the priority treatment of war pensioners.
NHS hospitals should ensure that they give priority to war pensioners, both
as in-patients and as outpatients, for examination or treatment relating to
the condition for which the patient receives a pension. Priority should not
be given for unrelated conditions. Referrals for treatment should make it
clear that the patient is a war pensioner and requires treatment for the
condition for which the pension was given.
The guidance issued as HSG(97)31 (http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm) still
applies. Further copies of this document are available by calling the
Responseline on 0541 555 455.
The National Health Service Trusts and Primary Care Trusts Pharmaceutical
Services Remuneration – Special Arrangement Order 2000 SI/1289
This Order replaces the National Health Service Trusts (Pharmaceutical
Services Remuneration – Special Arrangement) Order 1991.
It seeks to minimise the administrative work involved in charging the costs
of hospital prescriptions dispensed in the community to NHS Trusts. Under
the previous Order, each Health Authority could be required to deal with a
large number of hospitals, spread over the whole country. The change means
that each Health Authority will only need to recoup costs for prescriptions
written by Trusts for whom it is the main commissioner. It also means
that, from 1 April 2000, the arrangements apply to Primary Care Trusts as
well as NHS Trusts.
Available to view on http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk or hard copies
available from The Stationery Office
Patient Group Directions
On 13 March the Medicines Control Agency began a six week consultation
process on proposals to modify medicines legislation about the use of
patient group directions (formerly known as group protocols) for NHS
services or those services directly funded by the NHS. This action results
from the recommendations in Report of the Supply and Administration of
Medicines under Group Protocols, published in March 1998. The consultation
period ends on 18 April, and it is essential that all comments are received
by this date to enable us to have the new legislation in place by July.
Consultation documents can be found on
http://www.open.gov.uk/mca/mcahome.htm (users should then click the "What's
new" button). Hard copies can be obtained from Mr R Drepaul, MCA, Room
1411, Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane
Improving health care services for prisoners: A time table for action
28/02/2000 - This guidance sets out the programme of work for Prison
Service establishments and the NHS implementing the recommendations of the
joint Prison Service and NHS Executive report The Future Organisation of
Prison Health Care (HSC 1999/077 and the letter of 29 March 1999 from the
Director General of the Prison Service). It provides information about the
timetable for this work and the key issues for early progress. It has been
sent directly to all Prison Governors and Prison Service Area Managers.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/prisonhealthcare
HSC 1999/077 http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
Mailed out on 8/3/00 to HA Chairmen, Directors of Public Health & Nursing,
NHS Trust Medical Directors, Chief Executives of Mental Health Trusts, no
hard copies available
Document Ref. 21257
Social Services Interest
LAC (2000) 8 Professions Supplementary to Medicine: Employment of
Practitioners in the NHS and Social Services Departments
13/3/2000 - This guidance consolidates previous advice concerning the
restriction of employment of all
practitioners of the professions supplementary to medicine. It also asks
you to ensure that
appropriate arrangements are made to verify registration.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/coinh.htm
Mailed to LA Chief Executives and Directors of Social Services, hard copies
available.
Document Ref. 20983
The documents in this bulletin are Crown copyright but may be reproduced by
NHS and Local Authority staff without formal permission or charge for
personal or in-house use - ©2000
Linda Ferguson
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