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The NHS e-Referral Service (ERS) is an electronic referral system developed for the Health and Social Care Information Centre by IT consultancy BJSS. It is used by NHS England and it replaced the Choose and Book service on 15 June 2015. [1]
The number of referrals to GIDS by sex assigned at birth in each financial year from 2009/2010 to 2019/2020. The Cass Review was commissioned by NHS England in September 2020, following a significant increase in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service and a shift in the service from a psychosocial and psychotherapeutic model to one that included hormonal treatment.
The NHS provides mental health services free of charge but normally requires a referral from a GP first. Services that do not need a referral include psychological therapies through the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies initiative, and treatment for those with drug and alcohol problems. The NHS also provides online services that help ...
The Guideline Development Group then finalises the recommendations and the National Collaboration Centre produces the final guideline. This is submitted to NICE to formally approve the guideline and issue the guidance to the NHS. [citation needed] To date NICE has produced more than 200 different guidelines. [27]
Official guidelines state that no one in England should have to wait more than 62 days for cancer treatment after a referral from their general practitioner. However, press reports in 2015 indicated that some patients had to wait longer. [10] [11] On 4 September 2015, the NHS announced it would no longer pay for 17 different cancer medications ...
Life expectancy development in UK by gender Comparison of life expectancy at birth in England and Wales. Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom.It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England.
The e-referral scheme, developed by the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the North of the Tyne Local Pharmaceutical Committee, based on PharmOutcomes, won an award from the Health Service Journal in 2015. The system generates a referral from the hospital pharmacy to a community pharmacist when a patient is discharged from ...