Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
WAG: The Welsh Assembly Government has published a new set of quality standards which will improve services for deaf & hearing impaired children in Wales. Children & young people and their families need a high quality service and, recognising this, the WAG has supported the development of the Quality Standards for Paediatric Audiology (Wales).
The standards have been designed to work in conjunction with existing guidance, covering all aspects of service including access and the journey through the service whether it’s a simple hearing test or full support for a family with a deaf child or young person.
Press release ~ Quality Standards for Paediatric Audiology (Wales) (Actual publication has been delayed) ~ WAG: Health and social care
WAG: Platelets are the part of blood that are essential to stop bruising & bleeding. Volunteers can now become platelet donors without having to give their whole-blood, even if they haven’t given blood before. New guidelines also allow more young people to donate, with the minimum age for platelet donors dropped from 18 to 17 years old.
Monitor: Following consultation, Monitor has published detailed guidance for the Dry-Run of External Assurance on the Quality Reports. As indicated in the consultation response, the results of the dry run will be evaluated in the summer to inform the requirement for the 2010/11 published opinion.
Press release ~ Detailed Guidance for the Dry-Run of External Assurance on the Quality Reports ~ A summary of responses received during the consultation process is available here ~ Standards to support the data quality for the preparation of Quality Reports
ScotGov: A new guide offering SMEs advice on how to bid for public sector catering contracts has been launched. The guide has been produced by the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society (SAOS) and Scotland Food & Drink with the support of the Scottish Government.
The Scottish Government has also established a free-to-use, on-line Public Contracts Scotland Portal to enable all of the Scottish Public Sector to advertise their opportunities in a single place. Major contracts and many smaller opportunities are advertised on the portal. It is the prime site to search for Scottish Public Sector tendering opportunities. The portal gives FREE access to contract opportunities.
Press release ~ Guide to Supplying the Public Sector ~ Public Contracts Scotland ~ ScotGov: Food and drink
TS – CAB: National charity Citizens Advice has launched its first ever web pages dedicated to its own BSL (British Sign Language) advice. The pages are dedicated to allowing over 250,000 BSL users find an alternative & convenient way of accessing Citizens Advice services.
Written & presented by deaf employee & volunteer CAB advisers, the 5 BSL films have been specially commissioned & designed for the Deaf community. The introduction film offers general information in BSL on how & where to get help at CAB in England & Wales. It gives practical advice on how to make an appointment, what sort of information you need to bring with you to a bureau, and how to get further assistance.
Newswire – IDeA: The office of civic mayor is steeped in nearly a millennium of tradition & history. The word ‘mayor’ derives from the Latin ‘magnus’ (meaning great) and the role was introduced to Britain by the Normans in the 11th century.
Each year, hundreds of individuals take on the role of civic mayor. Until now, there has been little in the way of guidance to help them get to grips with this complex role, but the Improvement and Development Agency’s (IDeA) Local Leadership Academy has published a new workbook to help mayors prepare for office.
OGC: OGC’s Good Practice Guide on Demand Management provides an overview of the ways that demand management can be used to deliver real, cashable savings and improve value for money from spend through policy changes, managing fleets, managing behaviour and collaborative procurement. To obtain your copy of the guide, contact the OGC Service Desk, or call 0845 000 4999.
This guide seeks to support those within the public sector to challenge their current norms & manage spend on fleet resources as effectively as possible. It can also be used as a discussion document to engage a wider group of staff in order to help shape the organisation’s future strategy on tackling demand & supply issues. The guide is not designed to provide a comprehensive method for addressing demand management.
A set of dedicated webpages has now been set up on the NHS PASA website providing further information and ideas on managing grey fleet mileage.
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