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Communications summary: February 2008.
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Last modified date:1 April 2008
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This summary lists circulars, publications and consultations issued in February 2008. Further information abput a publication or circular can be found by clicking on any of the titles below.
Circulars
Dear colleague letters
- Introduction of the standard NHS contract for acute services
- Publication of Clostridium difficile surveillance data
- Aiming High for Disabled Children: Draft core offer standards paper
- Department of Health Seminar on Mental Health Commissioning 7 May 2008
- Survey of Expenditure by Primary Care Trusts on Hospice/Specialist Palliative Care Services for the Year 2006/07
- Local procurements of new GP practices and health centres - performance reporting arrangements
- New collection of direct access audiology waiting time and PTL data information
- Guidance on fluoridation of drinking water
- Antibiotics! do you need them
- Local procurements of new GP practices
Consultation responses
Publications
- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Implementation Plan: National guidelines for regional delivery
- Code of conduct for Payment by Results - version 2 (2007)
- Guidance on nominating a consultee for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent
- Better Care: Better Lives
- How to set and monitor goals for prevalence of child obesity: guidance for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and local authorities
- Mental health and ill health in doctors
- Genitourinary Medicine 48-hour Access: Getting to target and staying there
- NHS Stop Smoking Services: service and monitoring guidance, October 2007/08
- The Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework: Building for the future - progress report for 2007
- National Infarct Angioplasty Project (NIAP) interim report
- Medical care for gender variant children and young people: answering families questions
- NHS funding processes and waiting times for adult service-users: Trans wellbeing and healthcare
- Health effects of climate change in the UK 2008: an update of the Department of Health report 2001/2002
- Delivering quality and value: consultant clinical activity 2006-07
- NHS reference costs 2006-07
- NHS reference costs 2007/08: collection guidance
- Best practice guidance for joint working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry
- NHS costing manual 2007/08
Statistical publications
- Performance data: Monthly and quarterly/biannual provider-based diagnostics statistics (opens new window)
- Statistical press notice 7 February 2008: NHS Referral To Treatment (RTT) times data November 2007 (opens new window)
- Dental reform monitoring - Dental contracts statistics (opens new window)
- Smokefree England: National compliance data - December 2007 (opens new window)
- Report of the National Patient Choice Survey, England - September 2007
- NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting times figures, 31 December 2007 (opens new window)
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