Have your say on the future of nursing and midwifery

The Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery wants your views about nursing and midwifery by 10 August 2009. Lord Darzi’s High Quality for All identified nurses and midwives as key to providing quality care. Following this, the Prime Minister launched the Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in March 2009. It has been set up to ensure that frontline nurses and midwives have the support, skills and competencies that they will need to design and deliver 21st century quality services. You can submit your views here!

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Exciting Opportunity - Call for Case Studies

The Department of Health are calling for case studies which describe the tangible changes to services and successes one year into the implementation of the Next Stage Review. Lord Darzi would like to draw strongly on this work to mark the anniversary of the publication of High Quality Care for All in June. The DH are likely to use the case studies in a variety of media and are looking for an inspiring description of what has been implemented and how this has benefited patients, staff, or the local community. Stories do not have to be long, perhaps around a side in length. Click here for further information. If you are interested in submitting a case study please contact Sarah Mitchell.

NHS Alliance Sets Out Integrated Care Framework

The NHS Alliance has set out a proposed framework for the new integrated care pilots announced in Lord Darzi's next stage review. Along with goals such as clinical quality and financial accountability, it recommends putting an emphasis on prevention and reduction of ill-health; promoting collaboration across primary, community and secondary care boundaries, and across health and social care boundaries; and requiring that proposals should cover the whole disease spectrum. Read the NHS Alliance summary document here.

'The next leg of the journey: How do we make High Quality Care for All a reality'?: an NHS Institute Briefing

Following a review of Darzi's regional reports, Bernard Crump, Chief Executive, NHS Institute has announced that the NHSIII has published a briefing paper entitled 'The next leg of the journey: How do we make High Quality Care for All a reality'? The authors are Helen Bevan, Chris Ham and Paul Plsek. The paper is available to download now here. The next leg of the journey draws on research evidence and international case studies for large scale change, to guide NHS leaders into thinking about the implications for the implementation of the High Quality Care for All proposals. This briefing invites NHS leaders to consider carefully what they will do next and to help foster debate and comment at this crucial time, NHSIII has set up an online forum. To access the forum, read and post comments, click here.

Debating Darzi: Civitas Health Unit Seminars

The Civitas Health Unit aims to facilitate informed discussion on health issues, bringing fresh thinking on the problems facing the NHS and focus squarely on what matters: patient-centred, safe and integrated health care provided by empowered professionals. Over the past few months Civitas has hosted a number of debates, with key stakeholders and the medical profession, to provide an open forum for discussion on some of the key issues in Lord Darzi’s Next Stage Review: 'Competition: the solution to the NHS’s problems?'; 'Social enterprise and the third sector in health: the way forward?'; 'Polyclinics: an integrating or disintegrating force?'. Find the full report of each seminar here. The next in the series: ‘Commission impossible: is world class commissioning really possible in the NHS?’ will be held on Wednesday 16 July at 6.45pm. To register email: james.gubb@civitas.org.uk.