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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 10
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.
If you have any difficulties or would like to comment on the Bulletin
please let Philip Jepson know by e-mail to [log in to unmask] , by
faxing 0113 254 5800 or by writing to: Communications Directorate,
Department of Health, Rm 3N34A Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE.
Contents:
NHS interest
1. Cancer Referral Guidelines: Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer
2. The Vital Connection : An Equalities Framework for the NHS
Working together for quality and equality
3. Equal Opportunities Agreement
4. Leaflet for Pregnant Women on Antenatal Screening for Hepatitis B:
Hepatitis B: How to Protect Your Baby
5. Nurse, Midwife and Health Visitor Consultants Pay for 2000/2001
Social Care Interest
6. Consultation paper on preserved rights Income Support and the
Residential Allowance
7. Promoting Independence: Partnership, Prevention & Carers Grants –
Special Grant Reports (Nos 56, 57 & 58)
8. ‘Adoption – Achieving the Right Balance’
Response to issues arising from SSI survey of Local Authority Social
Service Departments’ Implementation of the circular
NHS / Social Care interest
9. The Government's Expenditure Plans 2000-2001 Departmental Report,
Department of Health
10. Consultation on new guidance for planning children’s services
11. "A Jigsaw of Services” - Inspection of services to support
disabled adults in their parenting role
NHS interest
1. Cancer Referral Guidelines: Referral Guidelines for Suspected Cancer
13/4/00 HSC 2000/013
The cancer referral guidelines are issued to help Health Authorities,
Primary Care Groups/Trusts, GPs and NHS Trusts agree local referral
criteria and referral procedures to enable those patients who might have
cancer and who require an urgent specialist appointment to be seen within
two weeks of their GP requesting an appointment.
Cancer referral web site
www.doh.gov.uk/cancer/index.htm
Guidelines in portable document format
www.doh.gov.uk/pub/docs/doh/guidelines.pdf
Wallchart in portable document format
www.doh.gov.uk/pub/docs/doh/wallchart.pdf
Cancer referral proforma
www.doh.gov.uk/cancer/proforma.htm
Ref. Guidelines 21401, Wallchart 21402 Hard copies will not be available
till w/c 24/4/00. Will be mailed to NHS Chief Executives that week
2. The Vital Connection : An Equalities Framework for the NHS
Working together for quality and equality
12/4/00 HSC 2000/014
In line with Modernising Health and Social Services, the National
Priorities Guidance 2000/01 –
2002/03 – www.doh.gov.uk/npg/index.htm, the new NHS framework for equality,
The Vital Connection (published April 2000 www.doh.gov.uk/nhsequality.htm)
describes three strategic equality aims to be achieved by NHS organisations
and their partners, together with priorities, objectives and targets beyond
April 2000. This HSC summarises actions all NHS employers should take to
implement the aims of the Vital Connection, building on the objectives
already set out in Working Together. The human resources performance
management framework, to be published shortly, will provide the framework
within which progress on implementing the equalities framework will be
managed.
Ref. 21471 Mailed to NHS Chairs, Directors of Personnel, Education &
Training, Nursing Hard copies available
3. Equal Opportunities Agreement
12/3/00 Advance letter GC1/2000
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.
Agreement
www.doh.gov.uk/equalopps/index.htm
4. Leaflet for Pregnant Women on Antenatal Screening for Hepatitis B:
Hepatitis B: How to Protect Your Baby
6/4/00 PL/CO (2000) 1 PL/CNO (2000) 3
Leaflet
www.doh.gov.uk/hepatitisb/
Ref. Letter 21070, Leaflet 21069 Mailed to NHS 5/4/00, Copies available
5. Nurse, Midwife and Health Visitor Consultants Pay for 2000/2001
13/4/00 Advance Letter (NM) 2000/2
Agreement has been reached in the Nursing and Midwifery Staffs Negotiating
Council on revised salary rates for nurse, midwife and health visitor
consultants employed in the NHS. The increases to salary scales are in
line with those recommended by the Pay Review Body for other nursing staff
Ref. 21443 Will be mailed to HA and Trust Directors of Personnel and
Finance w/c 17/4/00. Hard copies available w/c 17/4/00
Social Care Interest
6. Consultation paper on preserved rights Income Support and the
Residential Allowance
13/4/00 - The Department’s Social Care Group is consulting councils and a
range of organisations that represent the interests of service users,
carers and care providers on possible changes to two aspects of the Income
Support that is payable to people in independent sector residential care
and nursing homes: the system of preserved rights and the residential
allowance.
The consultation document is available on the Department’s internet site at
www.doh.gov.uk/scg/prraconsult.htm
Hard copies of the document will be sent to all councils in England and to
the organisations whose views are being sought. The consultation period
closes on Wednesday, 31 May.
Ref. 21480 Will be mailed to Directors of Social Services 17/4/00. Hard
copies available 17/4/00
7. Promoting Independence: Partnership, Prevention & Carers Grants –
Special Grant Reports (Nos 56, 57 & 58)
The above Grant Reports were approved by Parliament on 11 April. We are
despatching copies of these under separate cover and you should receive
them shortly. Draft versions of the Reports were attached to LAC (2000)6
which is available on the Department of Health web site on the COIN
database. Apart from minor typographical changes, the text remains
unaltered from the draft.
The reports set out the amount of each grant allocated in 2000/01 to each
social service authority and the conditions of the grants.
8. ‘Adoption – Achieving the Right Balance’
Response to issues arising from SSI survey of Local Authority Social
Service Departments’ Implementation of the circular
10/4/00 CI(2000)7
You responded to the recent survey of local social services authorities’
adoption services carried out by the Social Services Inspectorate. The
survey set out to assess progress in implementing the action plan set out
in LAC(98) 20 ‘Adoption – Achieving the Right Balance’. I am grateful to
all councils for the help and co-operation received by the Inspectorate in
this work. An analysis of the findings is attached.
Ref. 21446 E-mailed to Directors of Social Services and Chief Executives of
Local Authorities with SSD responsibilities. Hard copies available
NHS / Social Care interest
9. The Government's Expenditure Plans 2000-2001 Departmental Report,
Department of Health
6/4/00 - www.doh.gov.uk/dohreport/report2000/dr2000.html
Issued to HAs, NHS Trusts Chief Executives and Directors of Social
Services, copies available from The Stationery Office (customer services
tel. 0870 600 5522)
10. Consultation on new guidance for planning children’s services
12/4/00 LASSL(2000) 3
We are issuing the draft guidance in partnership with the Cabinet Office,
HM Treasury, the Home Office,
the Department for Education and Employment, the Department for the
Environment, Transport and Regions and the Department of Culture, Media and
Sport.
The consultative guidance promotes planning services for vulnerable
children as a corporate activity with the full participation of NHS bodies.
It proposes that children’s services plans should be the vehicle for
rationalising planning requirements concerned with vulnerable children and
ensuring that the outcomes sought for such children are consistent with
those sought for all children and are coherent across all local services.
The main body of the guidance can be accessed through the internet at the
following website address: www.doh.gov.uk/scg/cspconsultation.htm. It
comprises the guidance itself (40 pages), annex A (6 pages) and annex B (19
pages with 2 pages of references).
Ref. 21470 Mailed to HA and NHS Trust Chairs and Local Authority Chairs
Hard copies available
11. "A Jigsaw of Services” - Inspection of services to support
disabled adults in their parenting role
6/4/00 CI(2000)6
This report is based on inspections of arrangements for providing support
to disabled adults in their parenting role in eight local council areas.
The experience and views of service users and their carers provided a
significant focus for the inspection. The report provides a series of
questions that can be used by councillors and managers
Report
www.doh.gov.uk/scg/jigsaw.htm
Ref. Letter 21379, Report 21381, Summary 21386 Mailed to Directors of
Social Services 7/4/00 Hard copies available
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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