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Spire Healthcare alleged in 2013 that a block contract agreed between Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the clinical commissioning groups in Blackpool, and Fylde and Wyre offered a "clear incentive" for GPs to refer patients to the foundation trust and that this was anti-competitive behaviour. The contract provided the trust ...
CAPA focuses on the experience of the service user. It is a collaborative model where the clinicians providing the assessment act as facilitators for the user and their family. [4] Once a referral is accepted by the service, the user is contacted to arrange a convenient time for an appointment. This is the Choice Appointment. The possible ...
In order to achieve foundation trust status, NHS trusts have to pass a variety of tests, which have changed over time. In 2003 only trusts with three stars from the Commission for Health Improvement were eligible for foundation status. In that year Aintree Hospitals, Essex Rivers Healthcare, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals and Walsall Hospitals ...
NHS Improvement (NHSI) was a non-departmental body in England, responsible for overseeing the National Health Service's foundation trusts and NHS trusts, as well as independent providers that provide NHS-funded care. It supported providers to give patients consistently safe, high quality, compassionate care within local health systems that are ...
Three "partner members": one from an NHS trust/foundation trust in the patch, one from general practice, and one from a local authority. It allows NHS Digital to collect more information on medicines to analyse their use and safety and request information from private providers, and makes it a criminal offence to share that data inappropriately ...
"Clinical governance" does not mandate any particular structure, system or process for maintaining and improving the quality of care, except that designated responsibility for clinical governance must exist at Trust Board level, and that each Trust must prepare an Annual Review of Clinical Governance to report on quality of care and its ...
In March 2024, it was announced that psychotherapist Sue Evans, who was the first to raise concerns about Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust when she worked there in 2005, along with a parent of a fifteen-year-old, were challenging the CQC in the High Court over its decision to license the ...
The Health and Care Act 2022 put these systems on a statutory basis, each with an approved constitution. On 1 July 2022, a total of 42 ICSs became statutory. There are more than 70 performance metrics by which they are judged, grouped into six "oversight themes": quality, access and outcomes, preventing ill health and reducing inequalities, leadership, people, and finances.