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In April 2024, Health Secretary Victoria Atkins urged NHS England to prioritize evidence and safety in gender dysphoria treatment following concerns raised by the Cass Review. NHS demanded cooperation from adult clinics and initiated a review, with Labour supporting evidence-based care.
It acts as the repository for all information related to fraud in the NHS and the wider health group, and will have oversight of and monitor counter fraud work across the NHS. [3] It calculates that £216 million in fraud was “almost certain” and a further £135 million was “highly likely” with around £560 million considered likely.
Of services which had been inspected over half had not improved their rating when re-inspected, with 45% staying at the same rating and 10% having a lower rating. [26] Following the cyber attacks on NHS systems in May 2017 it was announced that the CQC will be asking probing questions to assess data security as part of its inspection process. [27]
The funding system originally ran from April 2011 to March 2014, and was preceded by an Interim Cancer Drugs Fund from October 2010 to March 2011. Based on the size of their covered population, each strategic health authority in England was allocated fixed funds from a total £200 million per annum that was made available.
GP Fundholding was created in 1991 [1] as part of the quasi-market created in the National Health Service by the Thatcher Government's National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990.
Along with the UK Cochrane Centre, the centre was originally created as part of the Information Systems Strategy of the NHS Research and Development Programme. The original aims of the centre were: To carry out and commission systematic reviews of research findings on the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of health care relevant to the NHS
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The office is sponsored by the Care Quality Commission, NHS England and NHS Improvement. [9] In January 2016 Eileen Sills was appointed as the first Freedom to Speak Up National Guardian for the NHS. [10] [11] [12] She resigned two months later, citing that she did not have sufficient time to combine this role with her other work. [13]