Visitor and migrant NHS cost recovery programme implementation plan 2014–16

"The Department of Health is working to improve the systems for charging overseas visitors and migrants for their NHS healthcare in England and increase the extent of the services for which they can be charged."

Visitor and migrant NHS cost recovery programme implementation plan 2014–16
Department of Health
July 2014

Read this guidance here.

Bite-size guides to support patient and public participation

NHS England has developed the following bite-size guides, to support patient and public participation in the NHS:

1. Principles for participation in commissioning 
2. Governance for participation 
3. Planning for participation 
4. Budgeting for participation 

These guides are linked to the Transforming participation in health and social care guidance (September 2013).

Good practice in joint health and wellbeing strategies

"This self-evaluation tool provides guidance on good practice in planning, developing and delivering Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies based around key questions to consider and top tips on approaches that might be taken."

Good practice in joint health and wellbeing strategies: a self-evaluation tool for health and wellbeing boards
NHS Confederation
September 2013

Read more here.

National Surgical Commissioning Centre

"The National Surgical Commissioning Centre (NSCC) is a web-based source of practical information, guidance,  advice and support for commissioners of surgical services."

Resources include data tools, national commissioning guides, regional support, and standards and policy. Access the Centre here.

Using NICE guidance and quality standards to improve practice

"This guide aims to help and support health and social care provider organisations to implement National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance and use NICE quality standards to achieve improved quality of care in their local settings."

Using NICE guidance and quality standards to improve practice
NICE
April 2013

Read more here.

Joint health and social care quality standards

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published the first joint health and social care quality standards, covering:

• QS30: Supporting people to live well with dementia 
• QS31: Health and wellbeing of looked after children and young people health and wellbeing of looked-after children 

NICE Pathways: guidance at your fingertips

"NICE Pathways is an online tool provides quick and easy access, topic by topic, to the range of guidance from NICE, including quality standards, technology appraisals, clinical and public health guidance and NICE implementation tools."

Access the pathways here.

Improving safety in maternity services

Improving safety in maternity services: a toolkit for teams, has been developed by Vinice Thomas and Anna Dixon at The King's Fund, and is organised around five key areas for improvement in maternity care on which the teams focused:

• teamworking
• communication
• training
• information and guidance
• staffing and leadership

Updated guidance on the diagnosis and reporting of Clostridium Difficile

"This revised guidance to healthcare providers identifies which two types of tests, which when used in combination, will deliver the most accurate results for C. difficile infection testing."

Updated guidance on the diagnosis and reporting of Clostridium Difficile
Department of Health
March 2012

Read more here.