Evidence for the pay round 2023 to 2024
The Dentists and Doctors Review Body has been asked to make pay recommendations for the pay round 2023 to 2024 on: uplifts for consultants, doctors and dentists in training; the minimum and maximum pay ranges for salaried general medical practitioners; and the pay element of remuneration for dentists employed by, or providing services to, the NHS. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Commissioning quality end-of-life care
Increasingly people are dying at home rather than in hospital and this trend is set to continue. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

ICSs adopt and spread innovation
The Accelerated Access Collaborative has co-developed a series of case studies on the implementation approaches taken in local integrated care systems (ICS) to promote the adoption and spread of proven innovation. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Ask the expert session – primary care medical contracts and PCNs
This session, available to our annual contract holders only, is led by our expert advisers. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

NHS cuts elective backlog
NHS staff across England have reduced the number of patients waiting more than a year and a half by over a quarter in just one month. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Implementation manual to support homeless
In partnership with the Centre for Homelessness Impact, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has published an implementation manual to accompany our guideline on integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Additional drug and alcohol treatment funding
This information provides a breakdown of the extra funding available to all local authorities in England for the financial year 2023 to 2024 and an indicative allocation for 2024 to 2025. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

NHS workforce more diverse
The NHS workforce is more diverse than at any other point in its history, according to an annual report into race equality across the health service. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

NHS Volunteer Responders - Check in and chat
NHS Volunteer Responders – the large-scale flexible programme launched during COVID-19 – has entered a new phase. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Primary care dental contracts – managing disputes
This online event will explore when contractual disputes relating to primary care dental contracts may arise and how they should be managed by commissioners. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Improved system of organ use to save lives
Patients waiting for organs will benefit from changes to organ transplant services designed to better match donated organs with recipients, increase the number of transplants and improve the patient experience. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

NICE recommends three treatments for COVID-19
Everyone with COVID-19 at highest risk of developing severe disease will have access to clinically and cost-effective treatments, under final draft guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Women experiencing menopause symptoms to get cheaper HRT
From 1 April 2023, women prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) - the main treatment for menopause symptoms - will have access to a new scheme enabling access to a year ’s worth of menopause prescription items for the cost of two single prescription charges (currently £18.70). (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Support older people with health problems to stay well at home
This report provides a first-hand account of older people ’s difficulties in getting the good, joined-up health and social care they need to manage at home, leaving them at risk of crisis that often results in being admitted to hospital. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Emotional health and delivering more person-centred neuro services
The Primary care and Community Neurology Society developed a new more Person-Centred mission and vision in 2021, to reflect the introduction of a new more person-centred steering committee; ie people, including healthcare professionals living with the life-altering medical news of a neuro diagnosis, including Parkinson's MS, Epilepsy and ADHD. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - February 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news