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Updated: Commissioning services for women and girls who are victims of violence
20 November 2009
Sectors:Violence against women and girls
Weekly swine flu reports
19 November 2009
The latest weekly report from NHS Direct on calls volumes to its hotline and statistics from the National Pandemic Flu Service will be available on the PCC website tomorrow morning (Thursday)...
Wanted: feedback on world class commissioning site
19 November 2009
The world class commissioning (WCC) team is considering revamping the WCC Networks website. If you're a commissioner and use the website we'd appreciate your comments and suggestions on how it can be improved...
Waiting time limits may become a legal right
19 November 2009
The Department of Health has launched a consultation containing proposals to e...
Review of the National Chlamydia Screening Programme
19 November 2009
In December 2008, the Department of Health asked Dr Ruth Hussey, Regional Director of Public Health in the North West, to review the impact of the National Chlamydia Screening Programme and whether the programme is achieving its aims...
Commercial and procurement skills for commissioners of children's services
19 November 2009
This page links to a set of
Directions about reports on consultation with regard to commissioning decisions and relevant decisions 2009
19 November 2009
These Directions are issued under sections 17A and 2...
Summary Care Records launched in London
19 November 2009
Summary Care Records making key medical information available wherever patients are treated are being rolled out across London. The national...
More for less: are productivity and efficiency improving in the NHS?
19 November 2009
This briefing...
PCSF for personalised care planning
4 November 2009
A new outline specification for personalised care planning is now available. It differs from other primary care service frameworks published by NHS PC...
Delivering world class accessible and responsive general medical care services for patients
4 November 2009
This event aims to support PCTs in tackling some of the key challenges that continue to face patients, providers and commissioners alike. The event will...
Healthy Child Programme: from 5 to 19 years old
4 November 2009
The Healthy Child Programme sets out the recommended framework of universal and progressive services for children and young people to promote optimal health and wellbeing...
North-west WCC of primary care and community services
4 November 2009
This event in Bolton on 24 November will focus on world class commissioning to improve patient care in primary and community settings. Workshops include a review of the 'transforming community services' agenda - how ...
Response to the consultation on draft regulations for the framework for the registration of health and adult social care providers
4 November 2009
In spring 2009, the Department of Health consulted on a set of draft regulations, which set out the detail of a new registration system to be operated by the Care Quality Commission...
CQC will face 'tricky decisions' on failing services
4 November 2009
The Care Quality Commission has some "tricky decisions" ahead on using its powers to shut down failing services, its chair has admitted. The...
Communities for Health: unlocking the energy within communities to improve health
29 October 2009
The Care Quality Commission has published findings from its study of how well patients' medication is managed after leaving hospital. It visited 12 PCTs, as commissioners of GP and hospital care, and surveyed 280 GP practices...
Managing patients medicines after discharge from hospital
29 October 2009
This guide is for health visitors and their teams, p...
North-west WCC of Primary & Community Care Services event
29 October 2009
This event in Bolton on 24 November will focus on world class commissioning to improve patient care in primary and community settings. Workshops include a review of the '...
New guidance for good practice for learning disability partnership boards
29 October 2009
In Valuing People Now (2009) the DH undertook to publish a range of
Reviewing patients who have waited longer than 18 weeks
29 October 2009
As set out in David Flory's Quarter 4 2008-09 report, PCTs need to understand and act upon the reasons for any unnecessary waits over 18 weeks. Thi...
Non-executive directors announced for new adjudication body for health professionals
29 October 2009
The Department of Health, the General Medical Council (GMC) and the General Optical Council (GOC) welcomed the
Updated: Commissioning Excellence links
22 September 2009
Updated: NHS Supply2Health training videos
21 July 2009
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Updated: NHS Supply2Health
21 July 2009
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Updated: Advanced Search
20 July 2009
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Updated: Practitioners with Special Interests (PwSIs)
22 May 2009
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Updated: Commissioning
10 February 2009
Updated: Search and Alerts
11 December 2008
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Updated: Approve award details
11 December 2008
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Updated: Creating an advertisement
11 December 2008
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Updated: Changing user settings
11 December 2008
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Updated: Creating users
11 December 2008
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Updated: Removing a user from a group
6 November 2008
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Updated: Adding a user to a group
6 November 2008
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Updated: Creating award details
6 November 2008
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Updated: Edit and resend a rejected advertisement
6 November 2008
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Updated: Rejecting an advertisement
6 November 2008
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Updated: Approving an advertisement
6 November 2008
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Updated: Sending an advertisement for approval
6 November 2008
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Updated: Editing an Advertisement
6 November 2008
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