Home Oxygen Service - Clinical Assessment & Follow-up Services (CAFS)

(02/06/08) Commissioning and Developing Home Oxygen Clinical Assessment and Follow Up Services

The guidance aims to offer practical tools to assist in the development and commissioning of home oxygen clinical assessment and follow up services. It aims to lay out the available resources in a way which will enable new initiatives to be more easily commissioned and to ensure that those developing services have the tools and contacts to move forward.

Version 1 of the guidance is now available for information.  A further version will be published by the Department of Health during the summer.

Click here to download the guidance.

Clinical Assessment and Follow up Services Commissioning Framework (2007)

Click here to download the HOS CAFS Commissioning Framework and all the Appendices as a compressed (ZIP) file

Click here to download the HOS CAFS Commissioning Framework

• Click here to download Appendix 1: The four oxygen suppliers and regions
• Click here to download Appendix 2: Summary of range of assessment service models currently undertaken
• Click here to download Appendix 3: an example of a draft Oxygen Service Flowchart
• Click here to download Appendix 4: Developing Clinical Assessment and Follow Up Service toolkit
• Click here to download Appendix 5: Extract from business case Doncaster Health Community / Bassetlaw PCT
• Click here to download Appendix 6: PBR tariff
• Click here to download Appendix 7: Cost Benefit Analysis
• Click here to download Appendix 8: Business Case, East Kent PCT
• Click here to download Appendix 9: Principles, taken from the Carter Review
• Click here to download Appendix 10: Clinical Component for the Home Oxygen Service in England and Wales
• Click here to download Appendix 11: BTS Working group on Home Oxygen Clinical Guidelines for Oxygen Assessment