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NHS and social care finances and planning requirements
The NHS in England: the operating framework for 2009/10
Published: 8 December 2008
The operating framework 2009-10 for the NHS in England sets out the following:
Health and service priorities for 2009/10: Strengthening the focus on subsidiarity whilst maintaining the 5 national priorities and the Vital Signs agreed for the 3 year CSR period 2008/09 – 2010/11. Patient experience is the final arbiter of success;
A system designed to deliver quality: making quality the organising principle of the NHS. The local visions set out in High Quality Care for All puts quality at the centre of all the NHS does, this focuses on the levers and incentives to further build on this, including staff engagement for the benefit of patients and the public;
The financial regime: Maintaining a framework that supports quality and innovative improvements in services within available resources. Key to this is asking the NHS to go further to ensure it makes the best use of taxpayers’ money;
The business processes: Ensuring that planning is based on locally led decision making and maintaining the emphasis on genuine partnership working at a local level with local government and other partners.
The operating framework is underpinned by the PCT allocations, the road testing of the new tariff, the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation Payment Framework, and Informatics planning guidance.
Rebuilding the NHS: A new generation of healthcare facilities
Published: 5 June 2007
This Government is undertaking the largest hospital building programme in the history of the NHS. Capital expenditure has increased from around £1.1 billion in 1997-98 to around £5.5 billion in 2007-08. The result of all this investment is improving the patient environment and experience of healthcare, modernising services, improving access for patients and offering better choice.
NHS Financial Manual
Detailed guidance on all finance matters for NHS organisations.
Finance staff development
About the Department's Finance Staff Development Strategy and the Finance Staff Development Network website.
Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme (HTCS)
Scheme offering financial help with the cost of travel to and from hospitals and other NHS centres.
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Developing the NHS Performance Regime
This document (published 4 June 2008) is designed to afford greater transparency and consistency across the NHS in relation to: identifying underperformance; interventions to address turnaround; and managing failure.
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