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Report highlights low palliative care referrals for heart failure patients8 February 2012The annual National Heart Failure Audit report highlights that fewer than 4% of patients with heart failure were referred to palliative care in 2010/2011. Referrals rates increased slightly to 6% for those readmitted to hospital. The main purposes...

Four new guides to improve mental health commissioning8 February 2012The RCGP has published four practical guides to help current and future commissioners plan and deliver high quality mental health services have been published. The guides focus on primary mental health care services, child and adolescent mental hea...

Paying for quality: CQUINS in London8 February 2012This report provides a detailed analysis of the impact of CQUINs in London, examining which issues were incentivised in 2010/11, how providers performed against their targets, as well the financial impact of this performance. It found that in 2010/...

Improving health and social care in London: supporting integrated commissioning8 February 2012This report finds that joining up support services for health and social care services could mean that there is as much as ï¿½50 per head available which can be used to support local planning and decision making. It would also mean that the boroughs ...

Emergency day surgery: improving productivity and reducing bed days8 February 2012This case study is about improving the management of patients with minor emergency surgical conditions (principally abscesses) by assessing them and admitting them if possible as emergency day cases the following day. This should save bed days and avoid unnecessary fasting for patie...

Quality and productivity indicators network8 February 2012PCC is developing an online network to support commissioners and providers in the development of pathways to reduce emergency admissions, elective referrals and A&E attendances. This network aims to share good practice and ideas across the country. Ple...

Consultation launch on commissioning outcomes framework8 February 2012The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) launched its first consultation on potential indicators for the proposed 2013/14 Commissioning Outcomes Framework (COF) on 1 February. Comments are invited on the indicators, which co...

Baseline spending estimates for new NHS and public health commissioning8 February 2012The Department of Health has published estimates of how 2010/11 spend by primary care trusts (PCTs) would be deployed under the new commissioning arrangements proposed in the health and social care bill. The baseline estimates, which have been uplif...

Effective commissioning of mental health services1 February 2012Mental health benchmarking and understanding patterns of performance have been hampered by the lack of consistent definitions of "inpatient bed". A report by the NHS Confederation seeks to address those variations of understanding by suggesting a ra...

A&E attendances up and patients stay longer1 February 2012More than half of A&E attendances involve patients staying more than two hours in the department - a higher percentage than the previous year. The figures come from Accident & Emergency Attendances in England (Experimental Statistics) 2010/11 which also shows there were...

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