Tools designed to help commissioners provide better care and save money
A series of tools, launched today, will help the NHS identify how therapists can intervene at different stages of a patient’s condition to improve patient care whilst saving on costs. The tools provide...
View ArticleThe New Medicines Service
The New Medicines Service (NMS) commenced on 1 October 2011 and focuses on patients with long term conditions that have been prescribed new medicines. It builds on the current range of advanced...
View ArticleDH sponsored review of the NHS Homecare Medicines in England
The Department published the homecare medicines report ‘Towards a Vision for the Future’ in December 2011. The supply of hospital prescribed medicines direct to patients in their own homes is...
View ArticleMedicines guidance produced for CCGs
Clinical Commissioning Group guidance NPC has published the guide ‘An organisational competency framework to ensure the effective delivery of your medicines management functions and responsibilities –...
View ArticleRefreshed checklist of efficiency measures for more cost effective prescribing
The Department has produced an updated provider checklist of 50 efficiency measures to help NHS Trusts, SHAs and PCTs to deliver safer, more cost effective prescribing. Provider checklist of 50...
View ArticleTop tips for mental health use efficiency schemes
A collaboration of mental health chief pharmacists have produced a top tips document of mental health use efficiency schemes. Such schemes cover clinical areas including anti-psychotic prescribing in...
View ArticleNew set of prescribing comparators developed
To help the NHS monitor prescribing of the key therapeutic topics, the NPC, NHS Information Centre and NHS Prescription Services of the NHS Business Services Authority have developed a set of 14 QIPP...
View ArticleKey therapeutic topics – medicines management options for local implementation
In February 2012, the National Prescribing Centre (NPC) published the latest update to their document ‘Key Therapeutic Topics – Medicines management options for local implementation‘. This provides...
View ArticleQuality Accounts audit guidance published
The Quality Accounts audit guidance sets out what trusts will need to do to support the audit of their 2011/12 Quality Accounts. The audit requirement applies to all NHS acute and mental health trusts...
View ArticleEarly implementers sought to test long term conditions year of care funding...
Early implementers are being invited to apply to test a potential new way of funding long term conditions care. The LTC year of care funding model will be tested by six early implementer sites and...
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