The Mandate

"The Mandate [from the Government] to the NHS Commissioning Board sets out the objectives for the NHS and highlights the areas of health and care where the Government expects to see improvements:

• helping people live longer
• managing ongoing physical and mental health conditions
• helping people recover from episodes of ill health or following injury
• making sure people experience better care
• providing safe care."

The Mandate
Department of Health
August 2013

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The Way Forward: Clinical Senates

The NHS Commissioning Board has divided England into 12 areas, broadly based around major patient flows into specialist or tertiary centres, and there will be one Clinical Senate for each geographical area. This document outlines the different roles of Clinical Senates, explains how they will perform these and also how they will interact with other organisations in the new health system, including Clinical Commissioning Groups, Health and Wellbeing Boards, and Academic Health Science Networks.

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