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Government Response To The House Of Commons Health Committee Report On The Provision Of Allergy Services
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Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215020079 Total Pages :88 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Provision of Allergy Services,Sixth Report of Session by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
Download or read book Provision of Allergy Services,Sixth Report of Session written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With allergies affecting about 30% of the adult population, and 40% of children, the need for a skilled primary care service is essential. The Committee, though, found serious problems in provision of such services. To combat this, the Committee recommends; setting up a network of primary care allergy providers; improved incentives for GPs to treat allergies; a system for better training in understanding and dealing with allergies; developing a framework that introduces allergies into the GPs Special Interest programme, so giving their treatment higher priority. Besides the deficiencies highlighted in the primary care services, the Committee also recommends improvements to secondary and tertiary care, and that at least one specialist allergy centre should be located in each of the former NHS regions, serving populations of between 5-7 million, and with a minimum of four allergy consultants. The Committee thinks that in the longer term, allergies should be the focus of a full specialist consultant workforce, with every major teaching hospital having a consultant-led service
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215020062 Total Pages :316 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis The Provision of Allergy Services by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
Download or read book The Provision of Allergy Services written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: provision of allergy Services : Sixth report of session 2003-04, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Author :Royal College of Physicians of London Publisher :Royal College of Physicians ISBN 13 :1860161839 Total Pages :116 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (61 download)
Book Synopsis Allergy by : Royal College of Physicians of London
Download or read book Allergy written by Royal College of Physicians of London and published by Royal College of Physicians. This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215036124 Total Pages :122 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (361 download)
Book Synopsis The electronic patient record by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Download or read book The electronic patient record written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England, implementing Electronic patient record (EPR) systems is one of the main aims of the 10-year National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT). The main plank of the NPfIT programme is the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) which will create two separate EPR systems: a national Summary Care Record (SCR), containing basic information, and local Detailed Care Records (DCRs), containing more comprehensive clinical information. NCRS will also include a Secondary Uses Service (SUS) which will provide access to aggregated data for management, research and other 'secondary' purposes. On the SCR, this report finds: a lack of clarity about what information will be contained; consent arrangements for creating and adding information have not been well communicated to patients or clinicians; important components have not yet been completed; maintaining security is a serious challenge. The DCR systems are to replace local IT systems across the NHS, but the report points to delays in trials and implementation, difficulty in establishing either the level of information sharing that will be possible, or how sophisticated local IT applications will be. There has also been a lack of local involvement in delivering the project, with hospitals often left out of negotiations between Connecting for Health (the body delivering NPfIT) and suppliers, leading to a lack of enthusiasm for deploying the systems. The Committee recommends Connecting for Health focuses on setting and ensuring compliance with technical and clinical standards for NHS IT systems, allowing local users the final say over which system is procured and how it is implemented. The report points to some notable successes too: agreement on a universal coding language for the NHS, and a single unique patient identifier, the NHS number; and the potential for the SUS and health research is significant.
Book Synopsis New Hart's Rules by : Anne Waddingham
Download or read book New Hart's Rules written by Anne Waddingham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'New Hart's Rules' is a brand-new text that brings the principles of the old text (first printed in 1893) into the 21st century, providing answers to questions of editorial style for a new generation of professionals.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215520401 Total Pages :28 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (24 download)
Book Synopsis Appointment of the Chair of the Care Quality Commission by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
Download or read book Appointment of the Chair of the Care Quality Commission written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government is committed to involving Parliament in the appointment of key public officials, and nominees for certain positions should be subject to a pre-appointment hearing with the relevant select committee. The hearing would be non-binding, but in the light of the report from the committee, Ministers would decide whether to proceed. On 30 April 2008, the Secretary of State invited the Health Committee to hold a pre-appointment hearing in respect of Baroness Young of Old Scone, the candidate for Chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The Report looks first at the CQC and the role of the Chair, then at the appointment process, and finally considers the suitability of the candidate. The Committee finds that Baroness Young is a suitable candidate for the post, and has the requisite professional competence, independence and integrity.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :021502687X Total Pages :260 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Changes to Primary Care Trusts by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Download or read book Changes to Primary Care Trusts written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-01-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) were created in 2002 to commission health services for their local populations, and are currently responsible for controlling about 80 per cent of the £76 billion NHS annual budget. In addition, PCTs have responsibility for public health, and many also provide community-based health services such as district nursing and community hospitals. The Committee's report examines the Government's proposals (set out in the Department of Health paper 'Commissioning a Patient-led NHS' published in July 2005, which can be downloaded at http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/11/67/17/04116717.pdf) to cut the number of PCTs and to contract out community health services by the end of 2008. The report raises a number of serious concerns about the proposals, including in relation to: failings in the consultation process; the impact of PCT restructuring and divestment of provider services; and the likelihood that the estimated financial savings of £250 million will be achieved.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215037961 Total Pages :124 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (379 download)
Book Synopsis National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Download or read book National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare systems have been confronted by multiple, often conflicting, guidelines on the use of medical technologies. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) was established in 1999 to address these problems in England. This work looks at what it does, how it works, changes made since its establishment, and the challenges it faces.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215513748 Total Pages :28 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (137 download)
Book Synopsis Work of the Committee 2007 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Download or read book Work of the Committee 2007 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work of the Committee 2007 : Second report of session 2007-08, report, together with formal Minutes
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215514950 Total Pages :144 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (149 download)
Book Synopsis Modernising Medical Careers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
Download or read book Modernising Medical Careers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) programme of work was established in 2003 to address difficulties in poor training and indifferent career prospects experienced by some doctors at Senior House Officer (SHO) level and by many of those in Staff Grade and Associate Specialist (SAS) posts. A new Foundation programme was introduced in 2005, the Specialty Training system was reformed and the SHO grade scrapped in 2007. As a result of inadequate preparation during the implementation of the reforms, in 2007 the MMC programme plunged into crisis. The new centralised recruitment system, the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS), proved highly unpopular with both candidates and assessors. A major inquiry, led by Sir John Tooke, examined the 2007 crisis and called both for major changes to the structure of training and for the creation of a new body, NHS Medical Education England, to oversee medical education. The Committee's investigation finds that a divided and inappropriate governance structure, flawed project and risk management and poor communication with junior doctors were the most serious failings. Co-ordination between the Department of Health and the Home Office on restricting medical migration was inadequate. These practical shortcomings were responsible for some of the direct causes of the 2007 crisis, including the defective application form and other aspects of the short-listing process, the unsafe computer system and the failure to limit the number of applications from overseas doctors. The leadership shown by the Department of Health was inadequate. The Chief Medical Officer chose not to take on a clear leadership role and thus did not accept responsibility for the 2007 crisis. The Committee makes a number of recommendations for change and improvement to achieve a more flexible training system, and calls on the Department to address policy issues relating to the wider medical workforce.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215033260 Total Pages :134 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (332 download)
Book Synopsis Workforce planning by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Download or read book Workforce planning written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staffing costs account for 70 per cent of NHS funding and the effectiveness of its workforce in large part determines the overall effectiveness of the health service. Workforce planning is the key means for the NHS to understand and anticipate the impact of demographic, technological and policy trends on future service requirements. However, workforce planning in also a challenging and complex issue, in light of social and technological changes, as well as the lengthy timescale involved in training staff (at least three years for most health professions and up to twenty years for some senior doctors). The Committee's report examines the effectiveness of current workforce planning activities, including clinical and managerial staff, particularly in the light of reported deficits in NHS organisations, and how it should be done in the future, including the following issues: workforce developments since 1999, the impact of the European Work Time Directive and increasing international competition for staff, retention and recruitment issues, examples of good practice, how to ensure flexibility in system arrangements, and whether planning should be centralised or decentralised.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215034069 Total Pages :174 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (34 download)
Book Synopsis Audiology services by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Download or read book Audiology services written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in seven people in England suffer from hearing loss of some kind, and the advent of digital hearing aids proved of great benefit to many patients. The Modernising Hearing Aid Services (MHAS) programme to improve audiology services, introduced in 2000, aimed to provide NHS patients with digital hearing aids. But the demand from people upgrading from older models was not predicted, and this led to very long waiting lists and times. The Committee regards the Government's new framework for audiology, "Improving access to audiology services in England" (Dept of Health, March 2007, http://www.18weeks.nhs.uk/public/default.aspx?main=true&load=ArticleViewer&ArticleId=570) as primarily reiterating previous announcements. A main concern is that audiology is kept outside the 18-week referral to treatment target that applies to consultant-led services, which compounds the waiting time problem. There is a need to increase capacity, and the Department of Health should undertake an examination of the medium- and long-term demand for digital hearing aids. The Committee notes the variation in practice in NHS audiology departments, and believes many could operate more efficiently. They should examine the skill mix and levels of training or experience necessary, and look at more flexible approaches to service provision. The report also comments on the involvement of the private sector to provide additional capacity, and the entry into the market of others such as opticians. The private services need to be monitored and the quality of care assessed on the same basis as that used for the NHS.
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Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215523839 Total Pages :76 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (238 download)
Book Synopsis Foundation Trusts and Monitor by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
Download or read book Foundation Trusts and Monitor written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, a new type of NHS organisation was established - the NHS foundation trust (FT) - which was to benefit from a greater degree of financial and management freedom and different arrangements to improve local accountability. There are now over 100 NHS foundation trusts. This report examines the trusts and the organisation - Monitor - that monitors their performance. FTs have some proven strengths. They have performed well financially and generated surpluses, and have been high performers in routine NHS process quality measures. But it is not clear whether their high-performance is the result of their changed status, or simply a continuation of long term trends, since the best trusts have become FTs. Key aims of FTs were the promotion of innovation and greater public involvement. There are examples of good practice in both of these areas, but again there is a lack of objective evidence. The Government should commission research to assess all aspects of FTs' performance objectively so that best practice can be shared with other FTs, and with the NHS more widely. Concerns persist about what level of Government intervention in FTs' affairs is legitimate, and the Government must clarify what the appropriate levels of intervention are. Finally, Monitor's application process and regulatory regime seems to be well regarded. However, a complex regulatory environment of other organisations also surrounds FTs, and in particular there is potential duplication between the Healthcare Commission and Monitor both of which evaluate the quality of FTs' services.
Book Synopsis The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue by : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780104011485 Total Pages :156 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (114 download)
Book Synopsis Allergy by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee
Download or read book Allergy written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allergy in the United Kingdom has now reached epidemic proportions. In the UK the incidence of common allergic diseases has trebled in the last twenty years to become one of the highest in the world. Treatment of allergies is a significant cost to the National Health Service. Allergies can have a detrimental impact upon the education of children at school or the performance of adults at work. There is a severe shortage of allergy specialists in the United Kingdom. Problems with data collection mean that statistics are imprecise, and a significant proportion of general practitioners are unable to diagnose and manage allergic disorders, and have nowhere to refer patients with complex allergies. The report recommends that allergy centres led by a full-time allergist should be developed, where various specialists come together to diagnose and manage patients with complex allergic disorders. These allergy centres should be a source of education and training for doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers at every grade. They should also advance research, enabling effective treatments to be developed, and should provide the clinical database required for epidemiological studies. Clinicians within the allergy centre should work together with local schools, employers, charities and others to educate the general public, and particularly patients and their families, on allergy matters. Other recommendations include: maintaining clinical surveillance systems to monitor allergic disease; calling for further research into the ways in which the indoor environment influences allergy development; reviewing how children with hayfever are supported throughout the examination system; assessing the training that teachers receive in dealing with allergic emergencies; assisting individuals with occupational allergies to return to work; amending food labelling legislation to specify the amount of allergens contained within products; analysing the costs and benefits of immunotherapy treatment; and withdrawing advice which recommends peanut avoidance for pregnant women.
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
