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Communications summary: November 2007
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Last modified date:8 April 2008
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Circulars
- PL CNO (2007)6: Improving cleanliness and infection control
- PL CNO (2007)7: National Confidential Study of Deaths Following Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection
- PL CMO (2007)7: TB: Toolkit for planning, commissioning and delivering high-quality services in England
- DH (2007) 09 - Window restrictors
- DH (2007) 10 Plastic two-part self assembly step kick (Model 6100)
- HSC 2007/001: Better blood transfusion - appropriate use of blood
Dear colleague letters
- Second release of NHS choices
- Escort and bedwatch costs: transfer of funding from HM Prison Service to Primary Care Trusts
- Catch It, Bin It, Kill It campaign - the importance of good respiratory and hand hygiene
- Local Authority PFI Credits Applications 2007/08 Social Care
- Options for updating of Patient Choice booklets by working with the NHS Choices website
- DH/DCSF health-led parenting project: learning from the Family Nurse Partnership Programme
- Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Mental Capacity Act 2005 local implementation networks
- 2008-09 PCT revenue allocations
- Programme to maintain the security of supply of immunoglobulin
- General Ophthalmic Services: increases to the sight test fee and pre-registration supervisors allowance from 1 April 2007 and CET allowance for 2007
- Bidding for capital funding for the campus reprovision programme 2008/9 - stage 2
- Catch It, Bin It, Kill It campaign - the importance of good respiratory and hand hygiene
Live consultations
- Towards a framework for post-registration nursing careers: a national consultation.
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006/Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007, policy consultation document
- Possible amendments to medicines and associated legislation during an influenza pandemic
- Consultation on pandemic influenza
- Health Care and Associated Professions Order 2008
- Improving health, supporting justice: a consultation
- Consultation on guidance on 'Finding a shared vision of how people's mental health problems should be understood'
Consultation responses
- Implementation of European Directive 2005/36/EC for health and social care professions in the UK: consultation results and the Government's response
- Modernising financial allocation arrangements for NHS pharmaceutical services 2007: summary of responses to consultation
- Urgent and emergency care - key areas highlighted by the consultation and related work
- Review of Parts II, V and VI of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984: report on consultation
Publications
- Essence of care: benchmarks for the care environment
- Speech by the Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health, 1st November 2007: Chief Nursing Officer's Summit
- NHS Pay Review Body: Review for 2008
- Review body on doctors and dentists remuneration: Review for 2008
- Services for people with learning disability and challenging behaviour or mental health health needs
- Urgent care pathways for older people with complex needs
- Urgent care pathways for older people with complex needs
- Government response to the Health Committee report on the Electronic Patient Record
- Children's health, our future: a review of progress against the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services 2004
- Research into parental attitudes towards the routine measurement of children's height and weight
- Guidance note on the implementation of Directive 2005/36/EC in the United Kingdom for health and social care professions
- Research evidence on the effectiveness of self care support
- Delivering the 18 week pathway: Update Winter 2007/08
- Pandemic influenza: guidance for infection control in hospitals and primary care settings
- Pandemic influenza: Guidance on the management of death certification and cremation certification
- Pandemic influenza: guidance on preparing mental health services in England
- Pandemic influenza: surge capacity and prioritisation in health services - provisional UK guidance
- An operational and strategic framework: Planning for pandemic influenza in adult social care
- Pandemic influenza: guidance for primary care trusts and primary care professionals on the provision of healthcare in a community setting in England
- Pandemic influenza: Guidance for ambulance services and their staff in England
- Pandemic influenza: Guidance on preparing acute hospitals in England
- Responding to pandemic influenza - The ethical framework for policy
- Pandemic flu: A national framework for responding to an influenza pandemic
- Demand management plan for immunoglobulin use
- Clinical guidelines for the use of intravenous immunoglobulin
- Immunisations at 12 and 13 months of age
- A guide to immunisations up to 13 months of age
- Government response to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee report on allergy (6th report of session 2006-07)
- Delegated limits for capital investment
- CATCH IT, BIN IT, KILL IT - Respiratory and Hand Hygiene Campaign 2007-2008
- Senior salaries review body: Review for 2008
- Government Response to the Report from the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on the Scientific Developments Relating to the Abortion Act 1967
- World class commissioning: competencies
- World class commissioning: vision
Statistical publications
- Smokefree: national compliance data - 1-31st October 2007 (opens new window)
- Dental reform monitoring - dental contracts statistics - September 2007 data (opens new window)
- NHS Referral to Treatment (RTT) times data - August 2007 (opens new window)
- Diagnostic tests waiting time and activity data: month ending September 2007 (opens new window)
- Accident & emergency attendances; total time spent in A&E from arrival to admission, discharge or transfer ... quarter ending September 2007 (opens new window)
- Statistical press notice: NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting times figures: 31 October 2007 (opens new window)
- Cancelled operations, England: quarters ending September 2007 (opens new window)
- Waiting times for suspected cancer patients: quarter ending September 2007 (opens new window)
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