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Help inform our response to monitor: Guidance on procurement, patient choice and competition in England
This briefing gives an overview of a suite of consultations from Monitor including guidance for commissioners on when to use competition. Monitor, as the new sector regulator for the NHS in England has particular responsibilities in enforcing new regulations on procurement, patient choice and competition ('Section 75' regulations). We want to hear from you about whether you think that the guidance is clear, whether it provides sufficient reassurance that patients will be at the heart of decisions to use competition or not, and whether services risk becoming fragmented. Please contact leela.barham@rcn.org by 21 June 2013 to feed into the RCN's response.
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Briefing on the Trust Special Administration’s draft report for the future of services for local people using Stafford and Cannock Chase
This RCN briefing describes the proposals in Trust Special Administration's draft report for the future of services for local people using Stafford and Channock Chase hospitals. consultation document.
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Consultation on migrant access and financial contribution to the NHS in England
This RCN briefing outlines and seeks member views on the Department of Health consultation “Migrant access to the NHS”. The consultation asks who should be charged for NHS services in future, what services they should be charged for and how can the system improve in identifying patients who should be charged.
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The independent sector: History and role in England
This briefing provides an overview of the independent sector involvement in health care in England from the past to 2012 including key positions that the RCN has taken on these important issues.
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Moving Care to the Community
Updated December 2014. Moving care out of hospitals and into the community has been a UK wide priority for over a decade; however despite the government's commitment to invest in the community, there is a mismatch between reality and rhetoric. The RCN has worked closely with our sister nursing organisations in Canada, Australia, Norway, Sweden and Denmark to learn from their experiences relating to shift. This report sets out the current policies and initiative in the above-mentioned countries to move care closer to home; outlines the impact of these reforms on the nursing workforce; and offers recommendations for key stakeholders in the UK.
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The Keogh Review and special measures
This is a short factual RCN briefing on the Keogh Review report and to provide factual information on the special measures being applied to the 11 NHS trusts named by the Secretary of State for Health on 16 July 2013 (Hunt, 2013).
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RCN factsheet on clinical commissioning groups
Short briefing on clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), one of the new types of organisation formed by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
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Public health reforms in England
The Health and Social Care Act 2012 radically reforms the way that health care is commissioned in England. As part of these reforms, local public health services will move from the NHS into local authorities. A new body – Public Health England – will be set up to provide strategic leadership support and health protection functions. This fact sheet outlines these major changes, and the RCN’s views on them.
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Sweden’s experience with shifting care out of hospitals
This RCN briefing expands on the Swedish experience with moving care closer to patient’s home and the integration agenda. It specifically outlines the integration models in Jönköping and Norrtälje, and offers some learning opportunities for England. This briefing also complements the RCN’s larger piece of work on Moving care to the community: an international perspective.
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Personal medical services
The Department of Health is consulting on proposed changes to primary medical care contractual arrangements which will impact on Personal Medical Services (PMS) contractors from April 2013. This briefing summarises the changes and asks RCN members for feedback.
