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Standards for Better Health were a set of standards for the National Health Service in England. The standards were set out by the Department of Health of the United Kingdom in a document of the same name published in 2004. [1] NHS trusts had to declare their level of compliance with these standards to the Healthcare Commission annually as part ...
The Healthcare Commission had a role in promoting quality in healthcare through providing an independent assessment of the standards of services provided by the National Health Service (NHS), private healthcare and voluntary organisations in England. The commission also had the responsibility of coordinating organisations that inspect, regulate ...
People given fast-track NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) to provide support at the end of their lives can have it removed following a review, leaving them needing to find the money for their own care.
The NHS Long Term Plan, also known as the NHS 10-Year Plan is a document published by NHS England on 7 January 2019, which sets out its priorities for healthcare over the next 10 years and shows how the NHS funding settlement will be used. It was published by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens and Prime Minister Theresa May. [1]
It received praise for brevity, being only 39 pages, and lacking the illustrations which had graced its predecessors. Like the NHS Plan 2000 with which Stevens was also associated it was supported by the great and good of the NHS, but in this case it was regulators - Monitor, the Care Quality Commission and the like, rather than the Royal Colleges and Trades Unions of the earlier plan.
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Text of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. The Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 ( c. 43 ) enabled the creation of foundation trusts .
A report on the state of the NHS following the election of a Labour government in 2024, commissioned by Health Secretary Wes Streeting, led by the surgeon and former member of a Labour government Lord Ara Darzi (currently an independent peer) concluded that "The Health and Social Care Act of 2012 was a calamity without international precedent ...