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Community-based services – including substance misuse and learning disability services [49] Dentists – over 10,000 dental services [50] GPs and doctors – GP surgeries, walk-in centres and out-of-hours care [51] Hospices – end-of-life care and care of people with life-limiting illness [52] Hospitals – NHS and independent hospitals [53]
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is a health services research centre based at the University of York, England. CRD was established in January 1994, and aims to provide research-based information for evidence-based medicine .
Approved cancer drugs and treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy are funded by the NHS without any financial contribution being taken from the patient. Where NICE has approved a treatment, the NHS must fund it. But not all treatments have been assessed by NICE and these treatments are usually dependent on local NHS decision making.
A study by the National Audit Office in July 2014 of people in England found that the urgent care system is complex and many people do not know how to contact out-of-hours GP services or even that such services exist; [10] that 26% had not heard of out-of-hours GP services, and 19% had not heard of NHS 111. [11]
Australian Council on Healthcare Standards International (ACHSI) [7] Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited (AGPAL) [8] Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) [9] uses standards developed by the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS Standards) [10]
The newly formed NHS Birmingham and Solihull CCG became responsible for commissioning services for over 1.3 million patients. [citation needed] In November 2018, NHS England announced that the administration budgets of CCGs were to be cut by 20% and that mergers, which would be approved, were a good way of saving money. [18]
On 1 June 2012, the key functions of the NPSA were transferred to the NHS Commissioning Board Special Health Authority., [5] later known as NHS England. In April 2016, the patient safety function was transferred from NHS England to the newly established NHS Improvement. [6]
Category A response time – in cases triaged as Category A (life-threatening) by the triage software (AMPDS and NHS Pathways are the two approved systems), services are targeted to reach the patient within eight minutes of the call. In England, ambulance services are targeted on reaching 75% of Category A calls in 8 minutes, compared to 65% in ...