CCG Bulletin: Issue 91

31 Jul 2015 02:26 PM

Featured

Information Sharing to Tackle Violence (ISTV) programme: data collection

NHS England is leading a Department of Health funded project to backfill 12 Violence Reduction Nurses, to work one day a week during 2015/16. Nurses will promote data gathering on violence-related admissions within their trust and support up to 20 others across their region. A formal standard, ISB 1594, has been developed and information collection is now mandatory in the national standard contract. The ISTV programme has been developed to reduce gun, knife and other violent crime.

For action

Ensuring patients’ health and care records are available to health and care staff

The Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015 imposes new duties to use the NHS number as a consistent identifier and share information with other organisations that are directly involved in a patient’s care and treatment. These new regulations come into force on 1 October 2015. CCGs are asked to note the new legal duties.

NHS standard contract: electronic discharge requirements

The CCG planning guidance and the NHS standard contract have the requirement for all major providers to share discharge summaries electronically (i.e. between NHS Trust / NHS Foundation Trust and to any GP) from 1 October 2015. GP practices should therefore ensure that they are able to handle the receipt of discharge summaries electronically. CCGs are requested to confirm that all their major NHS providers and GP practices will have approaches in place by 1 October 2015. Please respond by 31 August 2015 to information.standards@hscic.gov.uk

Publications

Dementia diagnosis and data extract: update

The National Clinical Director for Dementia at NHS England has written to CCGsto provide an update on dementia diagnosis rates and data extract. Updates are also provided on a range of ongoing initiatives to support CCGs in caring for people with dementia and their carers.

Different payment approaches to support new models of care

The Five Year Forward View proposes a number of new models for providing care that will help promote person-centred and co-ordinated services. NHS England and Monitor have published a number of Local Payment Examples to support the shift to payment approaches that will underpin new care models. These examples, which include capitation and gain/loss sharing, have been informed by local experiences and show how different payment approaches could help support the delivery of new care models. CCGs may wish to look at these payment examples and consider how they might be of use locally.

Establishing a baseline of the seven day services clinical standards in acute care

NHS England is working with the Department of Health, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority to support the NHS to reduce the mortality gap by 2020. As part of this, NHS acute trusts are being asked to provide information, by 4 September 2015, showing progress on the implementation of the seven day service clinical standards considered essential to eliminating variation in mortality. This information will help to identify areas for quality improvement. Results from the survey will be published nationally and provide a baseline against which progress will be measured on a quarterly basis. Queries can be directed to7dssupport@nhsiq.nhs.uk.

Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) 2015/16: revised templates

NHS England has published revised CQUIN templates. For dementia and delirium, requirements for the community services element of the CQUIN indicator have been clarified. For improving physical healthcare, in a revision of the initial guidance the community early intervention psychosis element of the CQUIN now requires that providers demonstrate progress towards the aims of the CQUIN in community settings through a locally led exercise, with reporting of findings to be assured by locally agreed governance arrangements.

Updated guidance to make the Friends and Family Test more inclusive

NHS England has provided updated guidance to ensure the Friends and Family Test (FFT) is more inclusive. NHS providers delivering the FFT need to implement the changes by October 2015. The guidance provides adapted wording of the FFT question for use across NHS services for children and young people, patients with learning disabilities, dementia, language and literacy issues or patients who are deaf or deafblind.

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

NHS England has written to all NHS trust chief executives to ensure they continue to have arrangements in place, beyond October 2015, for collection and reporting of PROMs data for hip replacement, knee replacement, varicose vein surgery and groin hernia procedures. Further information on approved suppliers, provider extracts and the call-off process is contained in Annexes A, B and C.

Events

Register your place at the Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015

The Health and Care Innovation Expo 2015 will take place on 2-3 September at Manchester Central. Sessions developed specifically for clinical commissioners will include topics such as co-commissioning, planning new models of care, supporting leaders though transformation and developing commissioning capability and leadership. NHS England is working with organisations like NHS Clinical Commissioners to capture the issues that matter most to CCGs and ensure sessions are relevant. Tickets are available to all CCG staff. Please visit the Expo website to register and use the code CCGEXP1 for CCG Accountable Officer or Clinical Lead, or CCGEXP2 for all other CCG staff.