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ANNUAL REPORT 2004 - 2005- continued Patients Forum Meetings
2004 - 05 Summary of
Presentations
Conference 2005 Delivering
health for all - public health & social inclusion
"We have major policy strategies now in place around public health, health inequalities and social inclusion. The challenge is how we actually bring them all together" Jonathan Ellis, The Patients Forum
"This whole thing is about trying to get health integrated into local communities so that it's not just seen as something the NHS does, but it's about owning our own health" Sian Griffiths, Department of Health
"Those people who are most seriously disadvantaged or who suffer multiple disadvantages are almost by definition those who are least likely to benefit from public services" Stephen Martin, Social Exlusion Unit
"It's very important that we don't just create a new cadre of red guards who charge out with five key message and bludgeon people over the heads about their smoking" Alistair McCapra, Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
Foundation Trust Review Paul Durham, Healthcare Commission November 2004
"The review fell out of all the debate in Parliament from becoming a Bill to an Act."
1. What evidence in general terms is there that NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs) are using their powers to:
2. What obstacles have they faced and do they foresee, in achieving the above objectives?
3. What has been the impact of NHSFTs so far, on relationships within their local health economy?
4. In what ways are their governance arrangements assisting or impeding NHSFTs from exercising their powers for the benefit of patients?
Driving Improvement in Health - A New Approach Jose King & Alison Cahn, Healthcare Commission 'Assessment for Improvement' January 2005
What is the Healthcare Commission?
Our Statutory Roles...
"The start of a journey...for all healthcare"
The Freedom of Information Act and its impact on health services Maurice Frankel, Campaign for Freedom of Information Sue Markey, Information Commissioner's Office John Grenville, British Medical Association March 2005
"We are ten weeks into the Freedom of Information regime. I'll give some characteristics of what the regime is. First, we have three new laws or rather, three new rights that have come into force: the right of access to freedom of information held by public authorities; the right of access to environmental information, which is exempt under the FOI but covered by a separate set of environmental regulations, and an improved right of access to personal data under the Data Protection Act for information held by public authorities. It doesn't affect access to health records, which is already at a relatively high level of access but it does significantly improve the right of access to most other records, for example to the health records held by people who are not health professionals.
What we have got is an enormously wide scope of the legislation. It applies to central government, it applies to local government, it applies to the NHS, to quangos and regulators, the armed forces and the police. One of the things it means is that we have no distinction between health bodies and the bodies they work with. They are all subject to the freedom of information, so social services is covered, the private sector is not covered, but more or less every other sector is covered down to the individual GP. The regulatory bodies like the GMC are covered, all the advisory bodies, the drug licensing system, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority are covered, the Health Service Ombudsman is covered; so a very very wide range of bodies is covered. As long as the information is recorded it is subject to the Act and it doesn't matter who created it.
The Act provides practically the simplest regime I know for applying for information. You just need to make your request by writing or by email. You can send it to whomever you want to in the authority; there is no requirement to send it to a specific and FOI person." Maurice Frankel
"In the year ahead we will be focusing on the FOI Department, developing casework and Awareness Guidance." Sue Markey
"There are tensions, I think, between the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Protection Act and I think many authorities are going to find that quite difficult. I think doctors are going to find it less difficult because we are used to dealing with personal information. We have a code of ethics around personal information." John Grenville
Palliative Care - In the light of the Select Committee Enquiry, what are the outstanding issues, what is the Government doing about them, and what can we do? Erica Young, National Council for Palliative Care Claire Henry, End of Life Care Initiative, NHS May 2005
House of Commons Health Committee Report on Palliative Care 2004
Government Response, Sept 2004 Report welcomed as a valuable opportunity:
Recommendations: Choice
Recommendations: Resources
Recommendations - Attitudes
Changing Attitudes
There is increasing openness about death. Palliative care is not a specialist service for the minority - providing good care at the end of life will affect all health professionals
Dental Complaints within the Private Sector Gordon Miles, Director, Private Patient Complaints, General Dental Council July 2005
What benefis will it bring to dental professionals?
Benefits to patients:
The Role of the National Clinical Assessment Services (NCAS) in relation to Dentistry Dr Janine Brooks, Associate Director (Dentistry) NCAS
Purpose:
NCAS set up to help the NHS deal in a more timely and consistent way with doctors and dentists whose performance gives cause for concern.
Safer practitioners = safer patients
Providing support:
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