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The latest reports from the healthcare field.
     
Department of Health: Provider economics impact assessment model
Date Submitted:  10 December 2010		      
     
Influenza Season 2010-11: Use of antivirals
Date Submitted: 10 December 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Research and development work relating to assistive technology 2009-10
Date Submitted: 6 December 2010		      
     
Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Our strategy for public health in England  
Date Submitted: 30 November 2010		      
     
NHS Pay Review Bodies: Review for 2011
Date Submitted: 29 November 2010 		      
     
Care Quality Commission: Annual Performance Assessment 2009-10
Date Submitted: 25 November 2010		      
     
Backing Small Business
Date Submitted: 03 November 2010		      
     
HM Treasury - Spending Review 2010
Date Submitted: 01 November 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Resource limit adjustment - Interim cancer drugs funding
Date Submitted: 8 October 2010		      
     
Department of Health: National Capabilities Survey 2010
Date Submitted: 7 October 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Public dividend capital 2010-11
Date Submitted: 7 October 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Revenue generation initiative - Reporting information about treatment of overseas visitors
Date Submitted: 7 October 2010		      
     
Strategies to Achieve Cost-effective Prescribing: Guidance for primary care trusts and clinical commissioning groups
Date Submitted: 7 October 2010		      
     
Care Quality Commission: Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - Review of compliance
Date Submitted: 6 October 2010		      
     
Local Innovation: Public sector to social enterprise - A case study
Date Submitted: 4 October 2010		      
     
Department of Health: A simple guide to Payment by Results
Date Submitted: 30 September 2010		      
     
Care Quality Commission: Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Trust - Review of compliance
Date Submitted: 29 September 2010		      
     
Care Quality Commission: West London Mental Health NHS Trust - Review of compliance
Date Submitted: 28 September 2010		      
     
Progressing to NHS Foundation Trust Status: Letter from the Managing Director for Provider Development
Date Submitted: 28 September 2010		      
     
Progressing to NHS Foundation Trust Status: Letter from the Secretary of State
Date Submitted: 28 September 2010		      
     
DWP: Partnerships with local authorities and health agencies
Date Submitted: 27 September 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Letter to all Strategic Health Authority and Primary Care Trust chief executives about the proposals for GP-led commissioning
Date Submitted: 24 September 2010		      
     
NHS: Local spending data
Date Submitted: 20 September 2010		      
     
Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework Funding for 2010-11
Date Submitted: 16 September 2010		      
     
F-Department of Health: Efficient use of vaccines
Date Submitted: 9 September 2010 		     
     
Department of Health: Midwifery 2020 - Delivering expectations
Date Submitted: 9 September 2010		      
     
Commission for Rural Communities: Insights from users and providers of maternity services in rural England - Summary report
8 September 2010		      
     
Development of a National Tariff for Integrated Sexual Health Services
2 September 2010		      
     
Care Quality Commission: Luton and Dunstable review of compliance
Date submitted: 17 August 2010		      
     
The NHS Bursary Scheme: 11th edition
Date submitted: 17 August 2010 		     
     
Exercising Healthy Outcomes: Sport and exercise medicine - A guide for commissioners to developing musculoskeletal and exercise medicine services
Date submitted: 16 August 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Continuing care for veterans
Date submitted: 10 August 2010		      
     
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Work Programme Referrals: July 2010
Date submitted: 9 August 2010		      
     
Carers Strategy Demonstrator Sites Project Funding Allocations 2010-11
Date submitted: 4 August 2010		      
     
Third Sector Investment Programme: Innovation excellence and service development fund 2011-12 - Information pack for third sector organisations
Date submitted: 4 August 2010		      
     
Care Quality Commission: Priority for improvement councils
Date submitted: 4 August 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Principles and rules for cooperation and competition
Date submitted: 30 July 2010		      
     
Procurement Guide for Commissioners of NHS-funded Services
Date submitted: 30 July 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Review of reference costs
Date submitted: 29 July 2010		      
     
Interim Cancer Drugs Funding
Date submitted: 28 July 2010		      
     
AIDS Support Grant for Social Care for People with HIV/AIDS and HIV Capital Grant for People with HIV/AIDS: Financial year 2010-11
Date submitted: 27 July 2010		      
     
Improving Your NHS: What can you expect?
Date submitted: 27 July 2010		      
     
Early Experiences of Implementing Personal Health Budgets
Date submitted: 26 July 2010		      
     
Liberating the NHS: Report of the arms-length bodies review
Date submitted: 26 July 2010		      
     
Department of Health: The white paper: Supplementary management bulletin
Date submitted: 19 July 2010		      
     
Conditions lifted on Mid Essex services NHS trust
Date submitted: 13 July 2010		      
     
Liberating the NHS: Managing the transition
Date submitted: 13 July 2010		      
     
Funding for Children’s Palliative Care: FAQ
Date submitted: 9 July 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Information on the quality of services - Final report
Date submitted: 8 July 2010		      
     
A New Approach to Public Health: Speech by Andrew Lansley
Date submitted: 7 July 2010		      
     
Review of the Cancer Reform Strategy: Letter from Mike Richards
Date submitted: 7 July 2010		      
     
Strategic Health Authorities and GP Registrar (Amendment) Directions 2010
Date submitted: 7 July 2010		      
     
Building the Evidence Base in Pre-hospital Urgent and Emergency Care: A review of research evidence and priorities for future research
Date submitted: 6 July 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Master indemnity agreement
Date submitted: 5 July 2010		      
     
GP Patient Survey: Dental statistics - January to March 2010 - England
Date submitted: 1 July 2010		      
     
Practice-based Commissioning Group and Independent Leads Survey: Wave three
Date submitted: 30 June 2010		      
     
Basildon and Thurrock NHS Trust Progress Report
Date submitted: 29 June 2010		      
     
Tameside NHS Foundation Trust Compliance Report
Date submitted: 29 June 2010		      
     
Local Authority Circular: The Mental Capacity Act
Date submitted: 28 June 2010		      
     
Making the Most of Frontline Staff in the NHS
Date submitted: 25 June 2010		      
     
Abolition of the Four-hour Waiting Standard in Accident and Emergency
Date submitted: 23 June 2010		      
     
Maximising Resources in Adult Mental Health
Date submitted: 23 June 2010		      
     
Revision to the NHS Operating Framework for 2010-11: Letter from Sir David Nicholson
Date submitted: 21 June 2010		      
     
Pressure Ulcer Productivity Calculator
Date submitted: 10 June 2010		      
     
Independent Inquiry of the Commissioning, Supervisory and Regulatory Bodies in Relation to Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
Date submitted: 9 June 2010		      
     
Department of Health Supports Pride
Date submitted: 8 June 2010		      
     
McKinsey Report on the Fiscal Future of the NHS
Date submitted: 2 June 2010		      
     
The Influenza Immunisation Programme 2010-11: Letter
Date submitted: 28 May 2010		      
     
Care Quality Commission: Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - Review of compliance
Date submitted: 27 May 2010		      
     
Prescription Charges Review: Implementing exemption from prescription charges for people with long-term conditions
Date submitted: 27 May 2010		      
     
Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme: Instructions and guidance for the NHS
Date submitted: 26 May 2010		      
     
Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards: Quarterly activity data
Date submitted: 26 May 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Very senior managers’ pay - Letter from David Nicholson
Date submitted: 24 May 2010		      
     
Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalised Patients
Date submitted: 21 May 2010		      
     
New Regulations for Strategic Health Authorities on the S242A Duty to Involve
Date submitted: 20 April 2010		      
     
NHS Continuing Healthcare Practice Guidance
Date submitted: 1 April 2010		      
     
Release of NHS Premises Assurance Model: Benefits to acute sector providers, involvement of commissioning primary care trusts and support roles of strategic health authorities
Date submitted: 1 April 2010		      
     
The NHS Performance Framework: Implementation guidance 2010-11
Date submitted: 31 March 2010
      
     
Attitudes to Mental Illness 2010
Date submitted: 30 March 2010		      
     
NHS Continuing Healthcare: Refunds guidance
Date submitted: 30 March 2010		      
     
A National Framework for NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care
Date submitted: 29 March 2010		      
     
Meeting the Quality and Productivity Challenge for the NHS in Partnership
Date submitted: 29 March 2010
      
     
Planning and Developing the NHS Workforce
Date submitted: 29 March 2010		      
     
Commercial Skills for the NHS
Date submitted: 25 March 2010
      
     
Extension of the NHS Breast Cancer Screening Programme
Date submitted: 25 March 2010		      
     
NHS Global
Date submitted: 25 March 2010
      
     
Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A research and surveillance plan for England - Update on progress
Date submitted: 24 March 2010		      
     
A Framework for Staff Engagement: An introduction to staff engagement in the NHS and guidance on starting staff engagement policy
Date submitted: 23 March 2010		      
     
NHS Emergency Planning Guidance: Planning for the development and deployment of Medical Emergency Response Incident Teams in the provision of advanced medical care at the scene of an incident
Date submitted: 23 March 2010		      
     
Strengthening National Commissioning Consultation: Summary of responses to the consultation
Date submitted: 19 March 2010
      
     
World-class Commissioning: March 2010 update
Date submitted: 18 March 2010
      
     
Guidance for the 2010-11 Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Programme
Date submitted: 17 March 2010
      
     
Advancing Health: Examples of the work of the Chief Medical Officer for England, 1998-2010
Date submitted 15 March 2010		      
     
On the State of Public Health: Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2009
Date submitted 15 March 2010
      
     
Inclusion Health: Evidence pack
Date submitted 11 March 2010		      
     
Review of Public Health Regulation
Date submitted 11 March 2010		      
     
The Future of Public Services Online: Speech by Jim Knight
Date submitted 10 March 2010		      
     
Changes to the NHS Constitution: Government response to the consultation on new patient rights
Date submitted 8 March 2010
      
     
Primary Care and Emergency Departments: Report from the Primary Care Foundation
Date submitted 8 March 2010
      
     
The Handbook to the NHS Constitution for England
Date submitted 8 March 2010
      
     
The Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities (Waiting Times) Directions 2010
Date submitted 8 March 2010
      
     
Ordinary Residence: Guidance on the identification of the ordinary residence of people in need of community care services, England
Date submitted 5 March 2010		      
     
Department of Health: Relational security
Date submitted 1 March 2010
      
     
Putting Health in the Policy Picture: Review of how health impact assessment is carried out by government departments
Date submitted 25 February 2010
     
     
Easements to Quality and Outcomes Framework: Patient experience indicators seven and eight
Date submitted 24 February 2010
      
     
NHS waiting times statistics publications produced by the Department of Health. Response to consultation on proposals to discontinue current data collections on inpatient and outpatient waiting times
Date submitted 24 February 2010
      
     
A Guide to Values in the NHS
Date submitted 22 February 2010
     
     
Guidance for Access to Health Records Requests
Date submitted 22 February 2010
      
     
NHS Referral to Treatment Waiting Times Statistics for England: Annual report 2009
Date submitted 18 February 2010		      
     
NHS Costing Manual 2009-10
Date submitted 17 February 2010
      
     
NHS Reference Costs 2009-10: Collection guidance
Date submitted 17 February 2010
      
     
Quality Accounts Toolkit: Advisory guidance for providers of NHS services producing quality accounts for the year 2009-10
Date submitted 11 February 2010
      
     
Department of Health: Steele implementation programme - Becoming a Steele pilot
Date submitted 10 February 2010 		     
     
National Quality Board First Annual Report
Date submitted 8 February 2010
      
     
Framework for Quality Accounts: A response to consultation
Date submitted 5 February 2010
      
     
General Practice Out of Hours Services: Project to consider and assess current arrangements
Date submitted 4 February 2010		      
     
World Class Commissioning: January 2010
Date submitted 4 February 2010
      
     
NHS International Financial Reporting Standards Briefing Paper Seven: Auditors’ review of restated comparatives for the 2009-10 accounts
Date submitted 3 February 2010
     
     
Third Sector Strategic Partner Programme 2010-11
Date submitted 2 February 2010
      
     
Health and Well-being Reports
Date submitted 1 February 2010
      
     
Statements on Internal Control 2009-10: Disclosures guidance
Date submitted 1 February 2010
      
     
Department of Health: Clarification of complaints regulations 2009
Date submitted 28 January 2010
      
     
Help Shape Your Local Health and Social Care: Your guide to local involvement networks
Date submitted 28 January 2010		      
     
NHS Reference Costs 2008-09
Date submitted 28 January 2010
      
     
Payment by Results Data Assurance Framework: Briefing on accident and emergency pilot audits - January 2010
Date submitted 28 January 2010
      
     
Payment by Results Data Assurance Framework Consultation: 2010-11 onwards - Response
Date submitted 28 January 2010
      
     
Healthcare for People with Learning Disabilities: Recommendations of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Date submitted 27 January 2010
      
     
Engaging and Responding to Your Community: A brief guide to local involvement networks
Date submitted 22 January 2010 		     
     
Department of Health's Public Bodies 2009
Date submitted 21 January 2010 		     
     
Changes to the Childhood Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
Date submitted 20 January 2010		      
     
Choosing your Hospital Leaflets and Poster
Date Submitted 20 January 2010 		     
     
Care Quality Commission: Letter to the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
18 January 2010
      
     
Kidney Dialysis: Developing costs to deliver an equitable and high quality service - Final report
18 January 2010
      
     
Improving the Health and Well-being of People with Long-term Conditions
14 January 2010
      
     
Practice-based Commissioning Budget Guidance for 2010-11
14 January 2010
      
     
Quality Accounts: Roles of commissioning primary care trusts, local involvement networks and local authority overview and scrutiny committees
14 January 2010
      
     
Making Policy Count: Developing performance indicators for health and social care partnerships
13 January 2010
      
     
Department of Health: Education commissioning for quality
7 January 2010