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Communications summary: June 2008
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Last modified date:9 July 2008
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This summary lists circulars, publications and consultations issued in June 2008.
Circulars
Dear colleague letters
- Median Index of Public Sector Building Tender Prices (MIPS)
- Programme to maintain the security of supply of immunoglobulin
- NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework
- 'Making experiences count' regional events - sharing the learning from the complaints reform early adopter sites
- 18-Week Patient Experience Survey and National Patient Choice Survey
- 2008-09 Pay award for Very Senior Managers (VSM) in the NHS
- Primary and pre-school boosting vaccines
Live consultations
- Consultation on a statutory scheme to control the prices of branded NHS medicines
- Proposed new arrangements under Part lX of the Drug Tariff for the provision of stoma and urology appliances - and related services - in primary care: consultation document (June 2008)
- The impact of personally initiated X-ray computed tomography scanning for the health assessment of asymptomatic individuals: Recommendations made by the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE)
- Transforming the quality of dementia care: consultation on a National Dementia Strategy
- Towards a strategy to support volunteering in health and social care: consultation
- The NHS Resilience and Business Continuity Management Guidance 2008: interim strategic national guidance for NHS organisations
- A consultation on the NHS Constitution
Consultation responses
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice and regulations: report on consultation
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006/Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (Northern Ireland) Order 2007: Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) scheme consultation document - formal Government response
Publications
- PCT Board Development Framework
- Extending Professional Regulation Working Group Interim Report: Protecting the public by ensuring that workforce standards are met
- Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) guidelines for LCP Drug Prescribing in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease
- Health inequalities - progress and next steps
- Carers at the heart of 21st century families and communities: a caring system on your side, a life of your own
- Self care: a national view in 2007 compared to 2004-05
- Strategic Health Authorities' visions for better healthcare
- Department of Health Business Plan 2008 - 09
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: Deprivation of liberty safeguards - Code of Practice to supplement the main Mental Capacity Act 2005 Code of Practice
- The Patient Information Advisory Group (PIAG) Annual Report 2006-07
- The National Education and Competence Framework for assistant critical care practitioners
- What matters to staff in the NHS: research study conducted for the Department of Health - June 2008
- The National Education and Competence Framework for assistant critical care practitioners
- PCT survey - provision of IVF in England 2007
- Putting People First - working to make it happen: adult social care workforce strategy - interim statement
- Commissioning to make a bigger difference - a guide for NHS and social care commissioners on promoting service innovation
- Improving health: changing behaviour - NHS health trainer handbook
- Research on eliminating age discrimination in social services and mental health services
- Our NHS, our future: the contribution of healthcare scientists
- Modernising Scientific Careers (MSC)
- A high quality workforce: NHS Next Stage review
- High quality care for all: NHS Next Stage Review final report
- Statement on Contraception and Teenage Pregnancy
Statistical publications
- Report of the National Patient Choice Survey, England - January 2008.
- Abortion statistics, England and Wales 2007
- Monthly and quarterly/biannual diagnostics statistics (opens new window)
- Referral to treatment statistics (admitted patients, non-admitted patients and incomplete RTT times) April 2008 (opens new window)
- NHS inpatient and outpatient waiting times figures, 31 May 2008
- GP extended opening hours (opens new window)
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