Health Management and Policy Alert

Department of Health and Social Care 2020–21 annual report and accounts

House of Commons Public Accounts Committee -
This report finds that the Department for Health & Social Care lost 75 per cent of the £12 billion it spent on personal protective equipment (PPE) in the first year of the pandemic to inflated prices and kit that did not meet requirements – including fully £4 billion of PPE that will not be used in the NHS and needs to be disposed of. The report also voices concerns about the risk of further payouts as NHS commissioning is restructured under upcoming reforms.

• Report
• House of Commons Public Accounts Committee - news

Provider Selection Regime: supplementary consultation on the detail of proposals for regulations

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.

• Consultation details

Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN): 2022/23 — guidance

NHS England and NHS Improvement - 

This document sets out the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) scheme for 2022-2023. Technical specifications for each of the indicators are available in the annex.

• Guidance
• More detail

Draft NHS Standard Contract 2022/23: a consultation - proposed changes to the NHS Standard Contract for 2022/23

NHS England -
The NHS Standard Contract is published by NHS England for use by NHS commissioners to contract for all health care services other than primary care services. This consultation document describes the main, material changes being proposed to the NHS Standard Contract. The closing date for comments is 28 January 2022.

• Consultation
• NHS England - publications

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