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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 11
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.
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.
Contents:
NHS interest
1. National Plan
2. Sir Alan Langlands’ Guidance Letter on Pay for NHS Managers 1999/2000:
Compliance Statement – Hugh Taylor’s’ letter of 19 April 2000
3. Improving Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Data Quality 1999-2000
4. NHS Smoking Cessation Services 2000/01
5. Primary Care’s Role in Capacity Planning Project
6. Work-Life Balance Campaign Conferences
7. Mentioned In Bulletin, Issue 10: Advance Letter (GC) 1/2000: Sections 7
to 13 of The General Whitley Council Handbook: Equal Opportunities
Agreement
8. Important notice: General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practice
Committee Decisions
9. Good Practice In Continence Services
NHS interest
1. National Plan
The Chief Executive is sending a separate e-mail to all Trust and HA chief
executives today, to update them on the Modernisation Action Teams and to
outline the intensive NHS consultation process which will be starting next
week.
2. Sir Alan Langlands’ Guidance Letter on Pay for NHS Managers 1999/2000:
Compliance Statement – Hugh Taylor’s’ letter of 19 April 2000
Hugh Taylor emphasises the importance that Ministers attach to Sir Alan’s
message, and the need for a compliance statement in annual reports for
1999/2000. He advises that they should take a close interest in compliance
for 1999/2000 and be able to justify any deviations from the limit set for
that year.
Letter from Hugh Taylor
Ref. Hugh Taylor letter 21566. Will be mailed to NHS Chairs and Directors
of Personel 27/4/00. Hard copies available 27/4/00
Sir Alan Langland’s letter
www.doh.gov.uk/nhsexec/alpayletter.htm
Ref. 21567.
3. Improving Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Data Quality 1999-2000
All Chief Executives and HES data quality leads in NHS Hospital Trusts in
England will soon receive documents for the sign up process for 1999-2000
HES data. HES is produced from the Admitted Patient Care Commissioning Data
Set (APC CDS) data sent by Trusts via NWCS and provides the data set from
which national information and comparisons are drawn, such as the High
Level Performance Indicators and Clinical Indicators.
Chief Executives will be required to confirm whether they are content with
the APC CDS data supplied to NWCS or have serious concerns about its
quality by returning a sign up document to the HES Data Quality team at the
Department of Health by 2 June 2000 at the latest.
Trusts will have until 17:00 on 23 June 2000 to make any necessary changes
and submit final 1999-2000 data to NWCS.
The documents are available electronically www.doh.gov.uk/hes.htm. They
will be posted to trusts shortly after Easter and will also include Trust
specific tables providing a high level assessment of data completeness and
quality.
The sign up process is supported by Regional Office data quality leads, who
are listed in the documentation, and to whom questions should be directed
in the first instance.
4. NHS Smoking Cessation Services 2000/01
Updated monitoring guidance has now been made available on the NHSweb at
nww.doh.nhsweb.nhs.uk/nhssmokingcessation/ as mentioned in issue 6 of the
Bulletin of 16 March. Additional service guidance will follow as soon as
possible.
Ref. 21489. Hard copies available on request.
5. Primary Care’s Role in Capacity Planning Project
19/4/00 - Dr Paul Zollinger-Read from the National Patients’ Access Team is
undertaking a project on the role of Primary Care in capacity planning.
This letter seeks the assistance of Chief Executives of Primary Care Groups
and Primary Care Trusts in gathering information for the project.
Chief Executives are asked to send details of all the current measures that
are in action, or being developed in their local health community and any
evaluation that has taken place. Examples may include; current work
undertaken as intermediate care, priority scoring systems, slot systems,
successfully implemented referral protocols or care pathways, exclusion or
low priority guidelines and types of primary care provision.
For queries, or more details of the project please e-mail Dr Paul
Zollinger-Read on [log in to unmask]
Letter
Ref. 21574 Hard copies available
6. Work-Life Balance Campaign Conferences
On 9 March the Prime Minister launched the Government's Work-Life Balance
campaign. The purpose of the campaign is to encourage employers to go
beyond their legal obligations in their own interests and introduce working
practices which both benefit the business and enable their employees to
balance work and the rest of their lives more successfully. It will
complement the Working Lives campaign for the NHS.
The conferences are part of a consultation exercise and intended to discuss
the business benefits of flexible working policies with businesses, trades
unions, voluntary groups and a wide range of other partners. Places at the
following conferences are free, on a first come first served basis:
Birmingham, Tuesday 2nd May, at the National Motorcycle Museum Bristol,
Thursday 11th May, at the Bristol Marriott Hotel Newcastle, Monday 15th
May , at the Swallow Hotel, Gosforth Park
Glasgow Friday 19th May, at the Glasgow Thistle Hotel .
Further details and application forms are available from the conference
organisers on 0208 747 4300 fax 0208 747 4301
Mentioned in Bulletin, issue 10:
7. Advance Letter (GC) 1/2000: Sections 7 to 13 of The General Whitley
Council Handbook: Equal Opportunities Agreement
10/4/00 - The General Whitley Council has reached a new agreement on Equal
Opportunities which supports the wider modernisation agenda. This
supersedes the existing Sections 7 to 13 of its handbook.
Letter
Agreement www.doh.gov.uk/equalopps/index.htm
Ref. Letter 21570 GWC Agreement 21571 Will be mailed to NHS Directors of
Personnel 26/4/00. Hard copies available 26/4/00
8. Important notice: General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practice
Committee Decisions:
Please note that information regarding the decisions of the GMC’s Committee
on Professional Performance, Health Committee, Preliminary Proceedings
Committee and Professional Conduct Committee, which was previously
distributed by Health Service Circular, (the last one being HSC 1999/224)
can now be found on the NHS Web at:
nww.doh.nhsweb.nhs.uk/nhs/gmc.htm
This site will be updated on a regular basis. Any queries or requests for
further information regarding these decisions should be addressed to the:
Committee Section,
Fitness to Practice Directorate,
General Medical Council
178 Great Portland St
London W1N 6JE
9. Good Practice In Continence Services
19/4/00 PL/CMO/2000/2, PL/CNO/2000/5
Identification, assessment, treatment and review are key to the delivery of
continence services, as set out in new guidance from the NHS Executive.
Embarrassment often means that patients are reluctant to come forward and
discuss their continence problems. This is why identification, leading to
a comprehensive assessment and initial treatment are important steps in
treating incontinence. Comprehensive assessment includes questions about
home environment and lifestyle as well as health related issues such as
existing medication and continence symptoms. The guidance also offers a
range of options for treating continence including general advice to
patients and their carers about healthy living, bladder and bowel training
regimens, pelvic floor exercises, reviewing existing medication as well as
the provision of continence aids. Finally, a review should be carried out
to monitor the effectiveness of the treatment and to ensure there is
adequate clinical improvement.
It is also important that patients are referred, if appropriate to
specialist clinical services such as a specialist continence adviser,
urologist, gynaecologist or geriatrician. Organisationally, the guidance
suggests that continence services should be integrated across primary care,
community health services and specialist services to be most effective.
The guidance is available at www.doh.gov.uk/continenceservices.htm
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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