We are 6 working days from the end of the NHS year 2008/09.
5 DESs - Heart Failure (1 year) and Alcohol, Learning Disabilities,
Ethnicity (includes not First Language but Main Spoken Language - don't
know what useful purpose this is supposed to serve) and Osteoporosis,
which are all 2 year DESs were agreed for 2008/09 - with the assurance
business rules would be published in October 2008..
The final approval for these was posted on 5.2.09.
Most PCTs seem to have got practices to sign up towards the end of last
year ( calendar year, 2008): we got an offer for Heart Failure in, IIRC,
end of February.
The information that the DH had decided to defer the other 4 DESs to the
year 2009/10 was erroneous.
6 days to go **AND NO DES OFFERS FOR THE REMAINING 4 DESs**
Are we alone in this?
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Mary Hawking
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