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Dear Colleague Letters

• Advice for dentists on re-use of endodontic instruments and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• Capital allocation process: £30 million for improvements in safety on adult inpatient mental health wards
• NHS Choices
• NHS dental survey programme
• NHS very senior managers' pay
• Notice of a May 2007 data collection exercise to identify patient care monies used to fund staff time spent on research
• Recommendations of the expert working group on the prevention of VTE hospitalised patients
• Statements on Internal Control (SICs) 2006/2007 - Year end timetable and returns
• Statement on Internal Control 2006/2007 - Disclosures

Live consultations

• Roles and tasks of social work: A consultation

Consultation Responses

No consultation responses were issued this month.

Publications

• The national evaluation of LEAP: final report on the national evaluation of the Local Exercise Action Pilots
• The Primary Care Trust (National Specialised Services Commissioning Group) Directions 2007
• You're Welcome quality criteria: Making health services young people friendly
• Maternity Matters: Choice, access and continuity of care in a safe service
• Charging for Residential Accommodation Guide (CRAG) April 2007
• Report of the Review of Arts and Health Working Group
• Winter report 2006-2007
• Why your child's weight matters
• Mental health policy implementation guide: a learning and development toolkit for the whole of the mental health workforce across both health and social care
• Improving ambulance response times: high impact changes and response time algorithms for NHS ambulance trusts
• Making Every Young Person with Diabetes Matter
• Directions to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence 2007
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines: 14th wave
• Supporting healthy lifestyles: the National Child Measurement Programme Guidance for 2006-07 school year
• Mental Health Bill - the Government's response to the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights
• Vascular programme briefing pack
• E112 application process (for commissioners)
• Patient mobility: advice to local healthcare commissioners on handling requests for hospital care in other European countries following the ECJ's judgment in the Watts case
• Changes to the NHS bursary scheme: student bulletins
• Making decisions: the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA) service
• Improving the quality and outcomes for services to children and young people through effective commissioning - A self-assessment tool for commissioners
• Saws and scalpels to lasers and robots advances in surgery
• Report of the independent expert working group on the prevention of venous thromboembolism in hospitalised patients
• Reference costs 2006-07 collection: Costing and activity guidance and requirements
• Genetics and Insurance Committee fifth report from January 2006 to December 2006
• Breastfeeding: Off to the best start
• Guidance on the establishment and use of diagnostic reference levels (DRLs)
• Fourth annual report on progress in implementing the national suicide prevention strategy for England, 2006
• Operating framework 2007-08: PCT baseline review of services for end of life care
• Information Security Management: NHS Code of Practice
• Joint guidance on use of IT equipment and access to patient data
• Senior managers guide Drugs Bill
• R and D annual reports 2007: Guidance for annual reports on the performance management and future planning of R and D activity within NHS organisations
• The status of social care - a review 2007
• Mental health ten years on: progress on mental health care reform
• Emergency care ten years on: reforming emergency care
• Coronary heart disease ten years on - improving heart care
• Cancer ten years on: improvements across the whole care pathway
• Bereavement: A guide for transsexual, transgender people and their loved ones
• A guide for young trans people in the UK
• An introduction to working with transgender people: information for health and social care staff
• An introduction to working with lesbian, gay and bisexual people: information for health and social care staff
• Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards annual report (covering the 2006 awards round) 2007
• GP patient survey- your doctor, your experience, your say - further guidance for strategic health authorities, primary care trusts and GP practices

Statistical publications

• Monthly Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease statistics April 2007 (opens new window)
• Practice based commissioning: implementation monitoring - March 2007