We are pleased to share a draft version of the contract, which you can view on the NHS England website. This draft Contract has been published for a period of informal feedback and we are inviting you to let us have your views on it.
Alongside the draft contract, and to assist those who are likely to use it early on, we are sharing a series of supporting, explanatory documents.
Our report published today finds many similarities between London’s STPs and those produced in the rest of England. There are shared ambitions to give greater priority to prevention and early intervention and to strengthen and redesign services delivered in primary care and the community. There are also plans to reconfigure hospital services and, in some cases, to concentrate specialist services in fewer hospitals to improve outcomes.
We present a generalized perturbative analytical formalism for evaluation and optimization of the chromatic dispersion of complex ultrafast optical systems. Notably, we identify polynomial and recursive relations associated with the chromatic dispersion orders that are identical to the Lah and Laguerre transforms. We explicitly outline the first ten dispersion terms and dispersion slope parameters and visualize the significance of the chromatic dispersion orders for several advanced ultrafast optical and photonic systems consisting of various optical materials and nanostructures, grating and prism-pair compressors, and hollow-core photonic anti-resonant fibers. The derived simple hypergeometric transforms are applicable for evaluation of infinitely high orders for any type of frequency-dependent phase and can facilitate the optimization of complex optical systems with controlled dispersion balance at the single-cycle waveform extreme.
In his latest blog, AQuA Chief Executive David Fillingham shares his thoughts on adapting Lean thinking within health and social care, and how this can be supported through improving Whole System Flow.
We’ve just heard that SSOTP will not be renewing their agreement with SSSFT LKS for library services for this financial year. Because of this we will be reviewing our Be Aware bulletins. Sadly we won’t be accepting any new sign-ups from SSOTP staff and will be withdrawing some of the physical healthcare bulletins that we…
The Carter review, published on 5 February 2016, indicated that substantial cost savings can be made across hospitals and hospital pharmacy services.
As part of the ongoing work of the review, the NHS has used benchmarking exercises to compare hospital services and identify potential efficiency savings.
Lets explore some of the MCP service initiatives starting with the Same Day Access Service (SDAS) – this service in Gosport War Memorial Hospital continues to go from strength to strength.
Latest figures show that the service, enabling patients to receive a same-day appointment with a range of professionals, has triaged more than 30,000 patients since its launch in January.
Around 60 per cent of those patients didn’t need to be seen and had their query solved on the phone by getting advice from a range of professionals (GPs, nurses, physiotherapists or pharmacists).
We are four semi-rural practices on the western edge of the Peak District, separated by Cheshire’s rolling hills. All of us at Team BDP have similar reasons to change, and this was one of our most important steps.
Controversial plans to transform and integrate health and social care services require at least £9.5bn of capital funding – but NHS leaders don’t have the cash and will ask for demands to be ‘reviewed’ and ‘refined’.
A BMA investigation into the 44 STPs (sustainability and transformation plans) in England has revealed the vast sums needed just to create the infrastructure to deliver the projects, with costly building projects and investment in community facilities vital to the plans.
This paper presents NHS bed data from across the UK in one place. The data demonstrates the increasing pressures on the system in each nation. It provides evidence of the underlying cracks within the NHS.