Monitor FT Bulletin May 2012

In this edition:

• NHS provider licence: summary of your feedback
• Annual Plan Review 2012/13
• Clarifications on indicators in the Compliance Framework 2012/13
• Criteria for assessing the affordability of Tier 2 long-term borrowing limit applications
• Foundation trust 2011/12 annual reports and accounts

http://www.monitor-nhsft.gov.uk/our-publications/browse-category/guidance-foundation-trusts/monthly-nhs-foundation-trust-bulletin/ft-0

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Sustainable Development in Government The Big Green Bundle: Engaging Staff On Green Issues

The Big Green Bundle aims to help inspire participation among employees in initiatives to green organisations.

What makes The Big Green Bundle different is that it uses Defra’s environmental segmentation model to divide employees into seven different groups depending on their attitudes and beliefs towards the environment, environmental issues and behaviours.

http://sd.defra.gov.uk/2012/05/the-big-green-bundle-engaging-staff-on-green-issues/

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DoH Bulletin 248

On the agenda this week: the Secretary of State pledges more support for women with post-natal depression, the Department teams up with doc2doc forum to gather views on long-term conditions, and the NHS Patient Feedback Challenge uses new ways of working to share and implement the measurement and improvement of patient experience across the NHS.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/05/the-week-issue-248/

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DoH Corporate Plan 2012-13

The Department of Health’s Corporate Plan sets out our priorities for the year ahead. The Department’s enduring purpose is to achieve better health, better care, better value: working to help people live better for longer.

Now that the Health and Social Care Bill has become law, the Department has a firm platform on which to build clarity about the future direction of the health and social care system as a whole. 

The plan groups the Department’s activity into six priority areas:

• Better health; Better care; Better value relate directly to DH’s enduring purpose and capture the key business priorities for the Department for this year to April 2013
• Successful change, delivering the transition to the new system – picks up the work the DH does and its accountability for making this happen
• Working with our partners – builds on what the DH does now and recognises that in the new system the Department will be working differently
• Transforming the DH itself – is about the DH’s journey to develop its capability.

The plan is also built around how the Department will support the Secretary of State to deliver his five strategic objectives:

• a patient-led NHS
• delivering better health outcomes
• a more autonomous and accountable NHS
• improved public health
• reforming long-term and social care.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/05/corporate-plan-2012/

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DoH Bulletin 247

On the agenda this week: The Draft Bill to modernise adult care and support in England has been announced in the Queen’s Speech, and the Department for Health has decided not to release the risk register from November 2010.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/05/the-week-issue-247/

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Details Of Potentially Surplus Land For Housing In The NHS Published

Details of potentially surplus land for housing, currently owned by NHS organisations, which is no longer required nor likely to be needed for health service purposes in the future have been published. The information was provided by each of the 399 NHS trusts in England to the Department of Health through a central data collection.

The main findings from the 2012 data collection from NHS trusts, which related to parcels over 0.25 hectares, include:

• of the total 399 NHS trusts, 188 (47 per cent) declared at least one parcel of surplus or potentially surplus land and 211 (53 per cent) gave a nil response
• a total of 414 separate parcels of land were identified by the 188 NHS trusts who declared surplus or potentially surplus land.

See the main findings and the details of the surplus land data collection.

The results provide an update to the information published in October 2011 by the NHS and the Department of Health on the Disposal strategy – Land For housing. The information will assist in quantifying the contribution of the NHS to the on-going government initiative of accelerating the release of public sector land for development.  The data collection used to compile these statistics was undertaken during January and February 2012 and the statistics relate to information available as at 1 January 2012.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/05/public-sector-land/

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Safe Management Of Healthcare Waste

An updated version of the safe management of healthcare waste guidance manual is published.  A number of issues needed clarifying to improve consistency of understanding and to advise of legislative changes that have come into force since publication. The changes are:

• a change of wording from premises notification to premises registration
•  a paragraph has been inserted on the Waste Framework Directive 2011 which came into force after publication
•  Controlled Waste Regulations 2012 came into force 6 April 2012 – this needed a revised note added  links needed amending from the Carriage of Dangerous Goods Pressure Equipment Regulations 2004 version to 2009 regulations
•  inconsistency of terminology i.e. sharps boxes, sharps containers, sharps receptacles etc. have changed to sharps receptacles for consistency
• other amends were of in a similar vein.

http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/05/management-healthcare-waste/

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