Health Management and Policy Alert

Involving and supporting partners and other family members in specialist perinatal mental health services: good practice guide

NHS England - 
This best practice guidance describes women and their families with a positive experience of care, with services joined up around them and earlier diagnosis and intervention, and support to recover, ensuring fewer women, their infants and partners suffer avoidable harm.

• Guidance

Learning disability and autism - host commissioner guidance: quality oversight of CCG-commissioned inpatient care for people with a learning disability and autistic people

NHS England -
The NHS Long Term Plan made a commitment to making sure that people with a learning disability and/or people who are autistic are safe and are getting high quality inpatient care. This guidance for commissioners aims to support the quality oversight of clinical commissioning group-commissioned inpatient care for people with a learning disability and/or people who are autistic. This includes the minimum expectations for oversight during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Guidance
• NHS Long Term Plan
• NHS England - publications

Draft NHS Standard Contract 2021/22: a consultation

NHS England - 
This consultation document describes the main proposed changes tot he NHS Standard Contract for 2021/22. Comments from stakeholders on the proposals, along with any other suggestions for improvement, will be accepted up until 5 February 2021.

• Consultation documents
• Respond online

Specialised supported housing: guidance for local government and NHS commissioners

Local Government Association -
Supported housing is typically defined as a housing service where housing, support and/or care services are provided to help people to live as independently as possible. This is guidance for local government and NHS commissioners about a category of supported housing referred to as ‘Specialised Supported Housing’ (SSH), particularly lease-based models of SSH.

• Guidance

NHS oversight framework – CCG year end assessment 2019/20: methodology manual

NHS England -
This document summarises the methods used in the production of indicators and ratings for the year end assessment of clinical CCGs, using the NHS Oversight Framework. The framework includes a set of 65 indicators, of which 60 relate to CCGs. At the end of the financial year, there is a process to derive an overall year-end assessment for each CCG using these measures.

• Guidance
• NHS England - publications

Health and social care needs: assessment of adults under probation service supervision in the community - a guidance document

Public Health England -
This document provides guidance for commissioners about doing a health and social care needs assessment for adults under probation service supervision in the community. It provides a structure for the process, summarises where to find the best available data and gives examples of local practice. This guidance can be used by commissioners of health and social care services in: local authorities; clinical commissioning groups; and NHS England and NHS Improvement.

• Guidance
• Public Health England - publications

CPCF in 2020/21: frequently asked questions

Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) - 

To accompany the announcement of arrangements for the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) in 2020/21, PSNC has set out responses to a number of questions to help to answer queries that community pharmacy contractors may have.

• Briefing
• More detail

Thinking differently about commissioning: learning from new approaches to local planning

The King's Fund -
This report examines the approach being taken by some CCGs and local systems where traditional notions of commissioning are no longer guiding their way of working.

• Report
• The King's Fund - publications

Evaluating digital health products

Public Health England -
Digital health products can take different forms – for example, a service, campaign or other intervention. They might be provided through an app or website. These resources can help with evaluations for all digital health products. They aim to help demonstrate what impact a product has and how the costs compare to the benefits. They can provide information about how to make services better, including what works and what doesn’t. They can also help demonstrate the value of a product to commissioners.

• Resources

 

The older adults’ NHS and social care return on investment tool: final report

Public Health England -
These return on investment resources were designed to help local commissioners in designing and implementing services to support older people's healthy ageing. The tool can be adapted to local conditions and presents results showing the economic benefits of each intervention.

• Report
• Public Health England - publications