16 July
New Department of Health End of Life Care Strategy – promoting high quality care for all adults at the end of life launched. This highlights communication skills deficits – starting the conversation – which IMPRESS has already picked up for COPD and will address in its communication educational resources that are currently in production.
3 July
As part of Next Stage Review Primary and Community Care Strategy launched including plans for pilot integrated care organisations.
IMPRESS has joined forces with The NHS Alliance, Association of British Clinical Diabetologists, British Geriatrics Society, British Society for Rheumatology, Primary Care Cardiovascular Society and Society for Endocrinology to respond to the Next Stage Review and its proposals for integrated healthcare: Integrated Healthcare: from aspiration to implementation.
For the report click here
Please note that we have heard that the Department of Health will be testing and evaluating new ways in which PCTs can commission more integrated services from innovative groups of clinicians. We expect this to be a tight timescale, and you are advised to have proposals ready by early September:
“We are inviting proposals for pilots that involve clinicians working on a more collaborative bases across primary, community and secondary care – with local authorities and other sectors, including social care – to achieve more personal, responsive care and better outcomes for a local population.
The pilots will be based on the registered patient lists for groups of GP practices, and will be joint proposals from groups of primary and community clinicians with local authorities to provide integrated health and social care services."
30 June 2008
The review of the NHS by Lord Darzi is published: High Quality Care For All: NSR final report launched.
Cick here.
It is accompanied by NHS Next Stage Review: A Quality Workforce.
Click here
For a summary of the Review by IMPRESS Project Manager, Siân Williams, go to the Policy page.
25 June 2008
New IMPRESS COMMISSIONING A COMMUNITY COPD SERVICE: LESSONS FOR THE NHS
Based on a case study in Somerset PCT including dos and don'ts of procurement.
Click here
18 June 2008
Respiratory HRG version 4.3 is now available for quick reference.
See Jargon Buster Appendix 2.
3 June 2008
In conjunction with the launch by the Department of Health of Primary Care Trust Procurement Guide for Health Services IMPRESS has published its dos and don’ts of procurement as part of its paper Commissioning a community COPD service: Lessons for the NHS based on a case study in Somerset PCT. See our commissioning page. It will be followed by a fuller account of a case study from Somerset PCT about procurement of a COPD service (see 25 June).
We have also become aware of the lack of convergence between the evidence bases used by some commissioners, and that used by clinicians for decision-making. We are therefore reviewing how best to ensure that evidence from BTS and GPIAG conferences and publications gets into the domain of managers and commissioners. Equally, we are scanning the NHS websites for information about new service models in respiratory care, to ensure that the evidence from these is shared across the clinical community.