Publications

Just when you think it has gone quiet for a while the DH springs into action. As well the operational issues referred to below the white paper is also published. For the whole paper click here; and here for a summary.

Publications

2 big publications in the last part of this week. The first gives the direction of travel for many of the so "what are they actually going to do" questions. This is the clearly labelled: The NHS in England: The operating framework for 2006/7. The second is more pertinent; Practice based commissioning: achieving universal coverage. This sets out much more of a framework for practices and PCTs to engage constructively. For those of you who are fortunate enough to have the offer of budgets a link on the same page takes you to: "Weighted capitation shares at practice level"

Payment by Results

Payment by Results continues to cause much difficulty among innovators. We are rewriting our main site to give updated guidance but in the mean time for an overview of the implications please click for our paper. For a more detailed view, modelling the way that the finances will actually work please see the paper that we found on the British Society of Art Therapists website.

DES Publication

Interesting that the publication of the DES is slightly different depending on whether you read the NHS confederation publication or the BMA! Watch this space.