Department of Health

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Secondary care

Nurses sitting in a day room chatting to a patient.

Policies, initiatives and long-term arrangements in secondary care.

Booked admissions programme

Overview, progress report and information resources about replacing waiting lists with a system of booked appointments.

Configuring hospitals

Guidance for health systems embarking on service change, examples of best practice and further information.

Day surgery

Expanding day surgery and combating inefficiency in day surgery: key ingredients of NHS modernisation.

Hospital chaplaincy

The role of chaplaincy in providing spiritual and religious support to patients and staff.

Pathology

About the Pathology Modernisation Programme (PMP), formed to update the technology and organisational structure of pathology in the NHS.

Transplantation

Publications about organ and tissue transplantation in the NHS.

Radiography modernisation

About the continued modernisation and extension to the radiography skill mix programme.

NHS foundation trusts

Representing a profound change in the history of the NHS and the way in which hospital services are managed and provided.

Additional links

Tackling hospital waiting: the 18 week patient pathway

Implementation framework and resource pack explaining the nature of the 18 week pathway challenge.

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