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Health
and Social Care Bill explained
The Health and Social Care Bill is now in its Report Stage in
the House of Lords. A series of factsheets on the
Bill have been published to explain particular topics contained in
the Bill, including its key themes.
Dame
Fiona Caldicott to lead review into confidentiality and the sharing
of health and social care information
In January, the Government accepted the Future
Forum’s recommendation for a review of the balance
between protecting patient information and its sharing, to improve
patient care. Dame Fiona Caldicott has agreed to lead this
review.
Mental health
community teams activity data, 2011-12 Q3
The following
statistics have been published:
- Early Intervention teams served 7,624 new cases of psychosis
between April and December of 2011-12.
- 97.3% of patients under adult mental illness specialties
on the Care Programme Approach were followed up within 7 days
of discharge from psychiatric inpatient care.
- 97.7% of admissions to psychiatric inpatient wards were gate
kept by Crisis Resolution Home Treatment teams.
Personal
health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare
The Department is seeking partners to help it
communicate with young people and those that work with them. It
wants to work with organisations from all sectors to develop
partnership activity and gain a range of expert perspectives to
inform its work. If you represent an organisation or brand that
works with, or has access to, young people and you would like to
work with the Department on this activity, please contact them.
First
estimates of funding in new health structure
In the future,
doctors, nurses and other health professionals could control almost
£65 billion of NHS funding. In addition, around £5.2 billion
would be spent on public health services. Of this, at least £2.2
billion will go direct to Local Authorities to be spent on action
to help their local communities stay as healthy as possible and to
reduce health inequalities and will, for the first time, be
protected. The figures were developed by mapping PCT spending in
2010/11 on to the future structure, subject to the passage of the
Health and Social Care Bill, and uplifting them to 2012/13
levels. It is estimated that Clinical Commissioning
Groups will be responsible for around £65 billion of commissioning
expenditure and the NHS Commissioning Board for around £21
billion.
The future for
public health
Preventing cancer, cutting tooth decay
in children and the population weighing less, are just some of the
challenges local councils will be able to track their progress
against when they take over looking after the health and wellbeing
of their residents. From April 2013,
councils will be given a ring-fenced budget – a share of around
£5.2 billion based on 2012/13 funding – and will be able to choose
how they spend it according to the needs of their population. Those
who make the most improvements will be rewarded with a cash
incentive. The initiative also looks at
the tackling the causes of ill-health and
includes measures to look at school
attendance, domestic abuse, homelessness and air pollution.
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