Department of Health and Social Care -
This guidance sets out the process for ministerial intervention in reconfiguration of NHS services, including when and how NHS commissioning bodies must notify the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of NHS service changes.
Demos -
The Future Public Services Taskforce, led and delivered by Demos, will produce a cross-cutting public service reform strategy for central government. This could become the first cross-cutting public service reform white paper since 2011. This launch paper describes the context facing public services today and how the Taskforce will respond to that context. This paper argues that additional funding alone will not deliver a public services recovery; there must also be reform. Additionaly these reforms require a coherent vision from the centre of government to galvanise the system, allocate resources and push through resistance to change.
NHS Confederation -
This report outlines NHS Confederation members' views on what national bodies and the government should consider when planning for the future, including how Long Term Plan priorities may need to be adjusted post Covid-19.
The King's Fund -
The Health and Care Act, which introduces significant reforms to the organisation and delivery of health and care services received Royal Assent in April 2022. In this long read, The King's Fund explains what the changes brought in by the Act mean in practice.
NHS Confederation -
The health and care bill offers the legislative framework to accelerate integration and partnership working. However, if regulation and oversight arrangements are overly burdensome and not fit for purpose, there is a risk that leaders of integrated care systems will be inhibited in progressing towards integration, partnership working and driving the improvements in care the pandemic has shown are needed. This report sets out a set of principles that should drive the actions of regulators over the first year of system regulation and oversight.
NHS Confederation -
This briefing, produced jointly with NHS Providers and The King's Fund, shares concerns about the erosion of NHS independence as a result of the Health and Care Bill.
The King's Fund -
The King’s Fund supports much of the Health and Care Bill, however there are four priority areas we believe require amendment; reconfiguration powers; powers to direct NHS England; workforce; and the cap on social care costs.
Department of Health and Social Care -
This internal review was commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in June 2020. The aim was to make recommendations for social care reform and integration with health in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, which could fit alongside the funding reforms planned by the Department in the context of the NHS Long Term Plan. The government have since taken forward a number of the recommendations in the white paper, People at the heart of care and published the integration white paper, Joining up care for people, places and populations.
Department of Health and Social Care -
The proposed Provider Selection Regime will be a new set of rules replacing the existing procurement rules for arranging health care services in England. The proposed rules will be introduced by regulations made under the Health and Care Bill. This consultation builds on the engagement and consultation activity which NHS England has undertaken over the past three years. It aims to build on the consensus achieved from NHS England’s consultation on proposals previously set out for the Provider Selection Regime, and does not repeat or reopen that consultation. This supplementary consultation seeks views from respondents to help develop the regulations for the Provider Selection Regime. This consultation closes at 11:45pm on 28 March 2022.
Wilmington Healthcare -
This white paper examines the challenges and opportunities for the NHS and industry in 2022. It aims to help those working with and supplying the NHS to navigate through this period of change and reform – establishing what the main challenges are, how they can be addressed and what part industry can play. It looks at new rules of engagement, new value propositions, new account management structures, new methods of securing market access, and new skills and competencies. Please note that free registration is required to download this publication.